Black Arts Movement

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Black Fire This Time

This entry was posted in Poetry Writer Talk and tagged Black Arts Movement Black Fire Everett Hoagland poetry on June 7, 2022 by devmajor@pacbell.net

In 1968 Black Fire literary anthology edited by Imari Baraka and Larry Neal was released creating a clarion call for the Black Arts Movement. Essays and poetry from a range of authors including Nathan Hare, Calvin C. Hernton, Sun-Ra, Henry Dumas, A.B. Spellman, Sonia Sanchez and many others.  Fifty-four years […]

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Mari Evans –  Speaking Truth in Many Tongues

This entry was posted in Current events Writer Talk and tagged Black Arts Movement Mari Evans poetry writing on March 13, 2017 by devmajor@pacbell.net

I always have problems answering the question of what poet or poets most influence me. In what way? In what period of my life? Living or ancestor?  Yet when one of them passes I am deeply aware of how profound their influence was and is. Mari Evans is one such […]

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