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LATEST NEWS!
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Novel.
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Langston Hughes National Poetry Project
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Photographs and Biographical Resources by DENISE LOW & T.F. PECORE WESO |
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Hannah Wallinger's Pauline Hopkins: A Literary Biography
University of Georgia Press (July 29, 2005)
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TONY MORRISON's latest book : LOVE
Toni Morrison, Nobel-Prize-winning author of Love is all set to launch her next book at 7:00 PM. Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 East 17th St. 212.253.0810. |
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Telling It Like It Is The Truth About All the Women of the Bible by Mary E. Townsend
Read the Press release from Leathers Publishing
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BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD's latest book: HOTTENTOT VENUS
After her latest book Hottentot Venus, she is scheduled for a book signing at 7:30 PM. Barnes & Noble Upper West Side, 2289 Broadway (at 82nd). 212.362.8835. |
Ted Joans Lives! We celebrate the life and work of poet Ted Joans, who died in May of this year. A homeboy of Cairo, Illinois, born on the 4th of July 4, 1928, Joans had already established himself as a musician and artist with a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from Indiana University before moving to Greenwich Village in 1951.
He was one of the original Beat poets, the granddaddy of bringing jazz and "spoken word" together on the bandstand, and one of America's most renowned Surrealists. His mantra soon became, "Jazz is my religion and surrealism is my point of view." When his former roommate, the great saxophonist Charlie Parker, passed away in 1955, it was Joans who began scrawling "Bird Lives!" all over lower Manhattan.
Author of over thirty books of poetry, prose, and collage, including Black Pow-Wow, Beat Funky Jazz Poems, Afrodisia, Jazz is Our Religion, Double Trouble, Wow, and Teducation, Joans' s best known statement is a poem titled "The Truth." While his topics ranged from love, poverty and Africa to the blues and rhinos, all of his writing, like his life, was a relentless revolt.
Read more about Ted Joans- The Beat Generation Poet and Artist. Go to THE TED JOANS Page... |
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JEAN FAGAN YELLIN's long-awaited biography : Harriet Jacobs - A Life
Her reputation as the indefatigable scholarly detective who pieced together the puzzle of Jacob's authorship of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is well known. But what one may not be prepared for is the eloquence and drama of her account of Harriet Jacob's life. |
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KU Press Releases |
Soyinka feted by fellow Nobel Prize winners |
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University Relations at KU... Black writing project brings Pace author to discuss 19th- ... New book on the African-American novel examines 150 years of ... Oral history workshop focuses on Kansas migrations World Trade Center story collector to be among experts at ... |
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka on his 70th birthday. (Staff photos Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard News Office) When Wole Soyinka, the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature, turned 70, his native country of Nigeria celebrated his birthday with two solid weeks of festivities. Harvard could not fête the 1986 Nobel Prize winner in quite the same way, but it managed something equally impressive - a feast of words catered by three of the honoree's fellow Nobel laureates. Read more... |
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