Review: Death, With Occasional Smiling by Dr. Tony Medina
by Alan King Growing up, my mom hammered Jesus into me and my siblings. But she didn’t know about the Jesus whose stomping grounds were “on 110th Street & Lexington Avenue/ In the crusty eyelash of El Barrio.” (from “Dame in Traguito”) This Jesus—without “an accent over the e” because he didn’t need it for…
Patricia Spears Jones
by Rochelle Spencer Patricia Spears Jones is the recipient of the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize About a month after 9/11, National Book Award recipient Lucille Clifton, in a reading at the New School with the poet Sonia Sanchez, shared a personal work-in-progress about the attacks –the powerful “a september song: a poem in 7 days.”…
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06/2005 The Wonderful World of Tony Medina Poet and educator Dr. Tony Medina talks with Cave Canem fellow Jacqueline Johnson about the current state of poetry. Original Notes of A Native Son James Baldwin’s friend and editor Sol Stein talks of their early days at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, NY. E. Poet,…
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12/1998 Sonia Sanchez Kimberla Lawson Roby Camika Spenser Mars Hill Ann Petry Nkiru Books The Writing Business by Pat Houser Speak Dis! by Tony Medina The Struggle for Visibility of African American Women’s Literature by Dorothy Harris Excerpt of The Moaners’ Bench by Mars Hill Reviews Assault on Paradise by Latiana Lobo Blue As the…
