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Women Writers on the Horizon
On March 28, 2012, I had the opportunity to witness four seminal figures in the arts engage in conversation centered on “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston. The talk was facilitated by Zora’s niece Lucy Ann Hurston, and included Alice Walker, Sonia Sanchez, and Ruby Dee
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Caryl Phillips: Interview
by Clarence Reynolds Caryl Phillips appears to be a man of a composed and modest nature. He’s relaxed in his T-shirt and leather jacket; he also presents the aura of a seasoned traveler.
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Down These Mean Streets: A Piri Thomas Celebration
What does it mean to be Black, Puerto Rican, and marginalized, all within your small neighborhood, within your family? In 1967, Piri Thomas’s seminal memoir “Down These Mean Streets” chronicled his life –a young man living a hard life in the streets of El Barrio, Spanish Harlem. The book would go on to become required…
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Rebecca Walker and Michaela angela Davis
February 14, 2012 – Rebecca Walker and Image Activist Michaela angela Davis conducted a conversation about Walker’s new anthology Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness. The collection—with essays written by prominent voices and figures such as bell Hooks, Henry Louis Gates, dream Hampton, Staceyann Chin as well as Michaela—explores the origins, aesthetics as well…
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Camille T. Dungy: Interview
Camille T. Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison; Suck on the Marrow, for which she received a 2011 American Book Award; and Smith Blue. She is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, and was a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award.…
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Best Books of 2011
NONFICTION Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11 By Caryl Phillips The New Press In this book of personal and critical essays, Caryl Phillips explores themes of cultural awareness and racial identity that are often at the center of his engaging fiction. Color Me English is a profound collection of previously written,
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Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy Interview with Tracey L. Walters As a child growing up in England what kind of literature did you read? Were you conscious of a Black British literary tradition? I didn’t really read literature as a child. I think I’m on record as saying that I did not read a work of fiction until…
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Making the Trees Shiver Book Launch
October 3, 2011 – The New York Writers Coalition presented its new book Making the Trees Shiver: An Anthology of the First Six Years of the Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival. Readers included poets Jacqueline Johnson, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor and young writers who’ve participated in the festival.
