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  • 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…

    October 25, 2021
    Reviews
    5 minutes
  • 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.”…

    March 24, 2014
    Elders, Interviews
    12 minutes
  • National Black Writers Conference 2014

    The Twelfth National Black Writers Conference: Reconstructing the Master Narrative Sponsored by the Center for Black Literature

    January 17, 2014
    Blog, Uncategorized
    1 minute
  • Dark Room Collective: Essay

    By Sharan Strange When James Baldwin died in 1987, a group of Cambridge, Massachusetts housemates—among us, aspiring writers and filmmakers—made a pilgrimage to his funeral in New York. It was winter and typically dreary when we heard, and though we were stung by the news of death, we felt a sense of urgency, a need to…

    May 12, 2013
    Essay
    17 minutes
  • Brooklyn Moon -For One Night Only

    by Ron Kavanaugh Thursday, March 8, 2012 – There’s no going back. The 90s poetry scene, laden with promise, talent, and camaraderie has been displaced by motherhood, mortgages, and tenure. But for a moment, the scene, which was originally centered at Brooklyn Moon Cafe, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and numerous other closet-sized spots with three tables…

    March 12, 2012
    Around Town, Essay
    4 minutes
  • Mosaic 15

    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,…

    June 7, 2005
    Issues
    2 minutes
  • Mosaic 4

    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…

    December 6, 1998
    Issues
    1 minute

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