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