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Poet Sister Artist Comrade: in Celebration of Thulani Davis
Poet Sister Artist Comrade: In Celebration of Thulani Davis Jessica Hagedorn: "It was a freaky-deaky time, in a freaky-deaky city..." By Jessica Hagedorn December 8, 2020 Thulani Davis has been my poet sister artist comrade for nearly 50 years. We met in San Francisco one night in either 1971 or 1972—young poets with flash and sass, opinionated and full of ourselves. We were reading at the Western Addition Cultural Center with several other poets, fiery types like Roberto Vargas, Serafin Syquia, Miz Redbone, maybe even Avotcja and Marvin X. Buriel Clay, a local writer and community activist, had organized the program and brought us all together. I was new at doing readings and didn’t know anyone there. I remember being nervous and excited. There wasn’t much of an audience, but being a part of this dynamic group felt like a very big deal. Dim lights. A podium, a mic, rickety folding chairs. Thulani was one of the last to read. The quiet, incantatory power of her voice and the bravado of her poem got me. I am Brown I am a child of the third world my hair black n long my soul slavetraded n nappy yellow brown-Safronia in this world, illegitimate seed… On her way out the door that night, Thulani made a cryptic comment about the tattered, patched-up jeans I had on. Whatever she said made me laugh. We became friends—hung out at her place on Oak Street, smoked Kools and Gitanes, and talked. Talk, talk, and more talk. We were curious and passionate about everything, from Jimi Hendrix to Anna May Wong to Jean- Luc Godard and Tennessee Williams. -
Poetry Project Newsletter
THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER www.poetryproject.org APR/MAY 10 #223 LETTERS & ANNOUNCEMENTS FEATURE PERFORMANCE REVIEWS KARINNE KEITHLEY & SARA JANE STONER REVIEW LEAR JAMES COPELAND REVIEWS A THOUGHT ABOUT RAYA BRENDA COULTAS REVIEWS RED NOIR KEN L. WALKER INTERVIEWS CECILIA VICUÑA POEMS DEANNA FERGUSON CALENDAR BRANDON BROWN REVIEWS AARON KUNIN, LAUREN RUSSELL, JOSEPH MASSEY & LAUREN LEVIN TIM PETERSON REVIEWS JENNIFER MOXLEY DAVID PERRY REVIEWS STEVE CAREY JULIAN BROLASKI REVIEWS NATHANAËL (NATHALIE) STEPHENS BILL MOHR REVIEWS ALAN BERNHEIMER DOUGLAS PICCINNINI REVIEWS GRAHAM FOUST ERICA KAUFMAN REVIEWS MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI MAXWELL HELLER REVIEWS THE KENNING ANTHOLOGY OF POETS THEATER ROBERT DEWHURST REVIEWS BRUCE BOONE $5? 02 APR/MAY 10 #223 THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Corina Copp DISTRIBUTION: Small Press Distribution, 1341 Seventh St., Berkeley, CA 94710 The Poetry Project, Ltd. Staff ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Stacy Szymaszek PROGRAM COORDINATOR: Corrine Fitzpatrick PROGRAM ASSISTANT: Arlo Quint MONDAY NIGHT COORDINATOR: Dustin Williamson MONDAY NIGHT TALK SERIES COORDINATOR: Arlo Quint WEDNESDAY NIGHT COORDINATOR: Stacy Szymaszek FRIDAY NIGHT COORDINATORS: Nicole Wallace & Edward Hopely SOUND TECHNICIAN: David Vogen BOOKKEEPER: Stephen Rosenthal ARCHIVIST: Will Edmiston BOX OFFICE: Courtney Frederick, Kelly Ginger, Nicole Wallace INTERNS: Sara Akant, Jason Jiang, Nina Freeman VOLUNTEERS: Jim Behrle, Elizabeth Block, Paco Cathcart, Vanessa Garver, Erica Kaufman, Christine Kelly, Derek Kroessler, Ace McNamara, Nicholas Morrow, Christa Quint, Lauren Russell, Thomas Seeley, Logan Strenchock, Erica Wessmann, Alice Whitwham The Poetry Project Newsletter is published four times a year and mailed free of charge to members of and contributors to the Poetry Project. Subscriptions are available for $25/year domestic, $45/year international. Checks should be made payable to The Poetry Project, St. -
Curing Narratives: a Contemporary Poetics of Agency
CURING NARRATIVES: A CONTEMPORARY POETICS OF AGENCY By MELANIE ALMEDER A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 1999 Copyright 1999 by Melanie Almeder ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am greatly indebted to the support of my family and the inspiration of their many ongoing successes: Robert, the brilliant philosopher: Virginia, the brilliant teacher and rescuer of animals: Lisa, the wonderful healer and activist: Chris, the insightful brother and the guardian of environmental good health. I have had the good fortune to work with inspiring teachers and guides at the University of Florida. I only hope Elizabeth Langland knows her importance to her students: she is a model toward which we aspire: a brilliant scholar, an insightful, original, and lucid writer, and a gracious, generous human being. I thank her for all of her time and care. Phil Wegner. Malini Schueller. John Cech. and Sue Rosser have all been generous with their time and comments and have pushed this project toward more complexity and invention. I am grateful to them. I am indebted, as well, to dear friends who have made this project possible with their support, conversation, and affirmation. I am indebted to Lori Amy. bravest of brave, who carefully read chapters, offered rigorous critique, and is a model of fresh, meaningful living and writing methods. Angela Bascik. lucid theorist among us. storyteller, truth teller, discussed this business of "agency" until the ultimate agent himself. Alexander, arrived. Monica Beth Fowler, queen of cameos, patron saint of strays, has reminded me of the myriad day-to-day humor and generosity that heals. -
EDUCATION, KINSHIP and NATION in AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE by SAMIRA ABDUR-RAHMAN a Dissertation Submit
SITES OF INSTRUCTION: EDUCATION, KINSHIP AND NATION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE By SAMIRA ABDUR-RAHMAN A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School-New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements For the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Program in English Written under the direction of Cheryl Wall and approved by ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ New Brunswick, New Jersey October, 2014 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION SITES OF INSTRUCTION: EDUCATION, KINSHIP AND NATION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE By SAMIRA ABDUR-RAHMAN Dissertation Director: Cheryl A. Wall “Sites of Instruction: Education, Kinship and Nation in African American Literature” explores education as a site of racial subjection and identity making in African American Literature and culture. Through close readings of selected narratives, I explore how writers use education to represent the navigation, and imagining, of the relationships between community, the individual and the nation. In chapter one, I explore Sutton Griggs and Frances Harper’s post-bellum narratives of education as attempts to recuperate both Southern landscapes and kinship through articulation of the black teacher as communal healer and sacrificial leader. Griggs and Harper represent scenes of instruction which engage with education as a negotiation between generations, occurring within intimate scenes of domesticity, and on larger public stages. In chapter two, I identify black teachers, and intellectuals, in flight as a symptomatic response to the constraints and contradictions of early twentieth century racial uplift ideology, with a focus on Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem. In the face of anxieties about race purity, national borders and miscegenation, Larsen and McKay center characters whose immigrant and marginal status provide alternative insights, and perspectives, that critique and challenge conservative discourses of both citizenship and ii black instruction. -
American Book Awards 2004
BEFORE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION PRESENTS THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS 2004 America was intended to be a place where freedom from discrimination was the means by which equality was achieved. Today, American culture THE is the most diverse ever on the face of this earth. Recognizing literary excel- lence demands a panoramic perspective. A narrow view strictly to the mainstream ignores all the tributaries that feed it. American literature is AMERICAN not one tradition but all traditions. From those who have been here for thousands of years to the most recent immigrants, we are all contributing to American culture. We are all being translated into a new language. BOOK Everyone should know by now that Columbus did not “discover” America. Rather, we are all still discovering America—and we must continue to do AWARDS so. The Before Columbus Foundation was founded in 1976 as a nonprofit educational and service organization dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature. The goals of BCF are to provide recognition and a wider audience for the wealth of cultural and ethnic diversity that constitutes American writing. BCF has always employed the term “multicultural” not as a description of an aspect of American literature, but as a definition of all American litera- ture. BCF believes that the ingredients of America’s so-called “melting pot” are not only distinct, but integral to the unique constitution of American Culture—the whole comprises the parts. In 1978, the Board of Directors of BCF (authors, editors, and publishers representing the multicultural diversity of American Literature) decided that one of its programs should be a book award that would, for the first time, respect and honor excellence in American literature without restric- tion or bias with regard to race, sex, creed, cultural origin, size of press or ad budget, or even genre. -
The Poetry Project Newsletter
THE POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER $5.00 #212 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2007 How to Be Perfect POEMS BY RON PADGETT ISBN: 978-1-56689-203-2 “Ron Padgett’s How to Be Perfect is. New Perfect.” —lyn hejinian Poetry Ripple Effect: from New and Selected Poems BY ELAINE EQUI ISBN: 978-1-56689-197-4 Coffee “[Equi’s] poems encourage readers House to see anew.” —New York Times The Marvelous Press Bones of Time: Excavations and Explanations POEMS BY BRENDA COULTAS ISBN: 978-1-56689-204-9 “This is a revelatory book.” —edward sanders COMING SOON Vertigo Poetry from POEMS BY MARTHA RONK Anne Boyer, ISBN: 978-1-56689-205-6 Linda Hogan, “Short, stunning lyrics.” —Publishers Weekly Eugen Jebeleanu, (starred review) Raymond McDaniel, A.B. Spellman, and Broken World Marjorie Welish. POEMS BY JOSEPH LEASE ISBN: 978-1-56689-198-1 “An exquisite collection!” —marjorie perloff Skirt Full of Black POEMS BY SUN YUNG SHIN ISBN: 978-1-56689-199-8 “A spirited and restless imagination at work.” Good books are brewing at —marilyn chin www.coffeehousepress.org THE POETRY PROJECT ST. MARK’S CHURCH in-the-BowerY 131 EAST 10TH STREET NEW YORK NY 10003 NEWSLETTER www.poetryproject.com #212 OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2007 NEWSLETTER EDITOR John Coletti WELCOME BACK... DISTRIBUTION Small Press Distribution, 1341 Seventh St., Berkeley, CA 94710 4 ANNOUNCEMENTS THE POETRY PROJECT LTD. STAFF ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Stacy Szymaszek PROGRAM COORDINATOR Corrine Fitzpatrick PROGRAM ASSISTANT Arlo Quint 6 WRITING WORKSHOPS MONDAY NIGHT COORDINATOR Akilah Oliver WEDNESDAY NIGHT COORDINATOR Stacy Szymaszek FRIDAY NIGHT COORDINATOR Corrine Fitzpatrick 7 REMEMBERING SEKOU SUNDIATA SOUND TECHNICIAN David Vogen BOOKKEEPER Stephen Rosenthal DEVELOpmENT CONSULTANT Stephanie Gray BOX OFFICE Courtney Frederick, Erika Recordon, Nicole Wallace 8 IN CONVERSATION INTERNS Diana Hamilton, Owen Hutchinson, Austin LaGrone, Nicole Wallace A CHAT BETWEEN BRENDA COULTAS AND AKILAH OLIVER VOLUNTEERS Jim Behrle, David Cameron, Christine Gans, HR Hegnauer, Sarah Kolbasowski, Dgls. -
B L a C K T Hou G Ht a Nd Cultur E
BLacK THOUGHT AND CULTURE alexanderstreet.com learn more at at learn more Black Thought and Culture Black Thought and Culture is a landmark electronic collection of approximately 100,000 pages of non- fiction writings by major American black leaders—teachers, artists, politicians, religious leaders, athletes, war veterans, entertainers, and other figures—covering 250 years of history. In addition to the most familiar works, Black Thought and Culture presents a great deal of previously inaccessible material, including letters, speeches, prefatory essays, political leaflets, interviews, periodicals, and trail transcripts. The ideas of nearly 100 people present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be black in America. The collection includes the words of Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Paul Robeson, Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Sammy Davis, Jr., Ida B. Wells, Nikki Giovanni, Mary McLeod Bethune, Carl Rowan, Roy Wilkens, James Weldon Johnson, Audre Lorde, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, Constance Baker Motley, Walter F. White, Amiri Baraka, Ralph Ellison, Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Jesse Jackson, Bobby Seale, Gwendolyn Brooks, Huey P. Newton, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Randall Kennedy, Cornel West, Nelson George, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Bayard Rustin, and hundreds of other notable people. Approximately 20% of the items are previously unpublished and fugitive, such as: • The transcript of the Muhammad Ali trial • A full run of The Black Panther newspaper, with full-color images of every page as well as searchable text • 2,500 pages of exclusive Black Panther oral histories owned by the Dr. -
LESTER BOWIE Brass Memories
JUNE 2016—ISSUE 170 YOUR FREE GUIDE TO THE NYC JAZZ SCENE NYCJAZZRECORD.COM LESTER BOWIE brASS MEMories REZ MIKE BOBBY CHICO ABBASI REED PREVITE O’FARRILL Managing Editor: Laurence Donohue-Greene Editorial Director & Production Manager: Andrey Henkin To Contact: The New York City Jazz Record 66 Mt. Airy Road East JUNE 2016—ISSUE 170 Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520 United States Phone/Fax: 212-568-9628 New York@Night 4 Laurence Donohue-Greene: Interview : Rez Abbasi 6 by ken micallef [email protected] Andrey Henkin: [email protected] Artist Feature : Mike Reed 7 by ken waxman General Inquiries: [email protected] On The Cover : Lester Bowie 8 by kurt gottschalk Advertising: [email protected] Encore : Bobby Previte by john pietaro Calendar: 10 [email protected] VOXNews: Lest We Forget : Chico O’Farrill 10 by ken dryden [email protected] LAbel Spotlight : El Negocito by ken waxman US Subscription rates: 12 issues, $40 11 Canada Subscription rates: 12 issues, $45 International Subscription rates: 12 issues, $50 For subscription assistance, send check, cash or VOXNEWS 11 by suzanne lorge money order to the address above or email [email protected] In Memoriam by andrey henkin Staff Writers 12 David R. Adler, Clifford Allen, Duck Baker, Fred Bouchard, Festival Report Stuart Broomer, Thomas Conrad, 13 Ken Dryden, Donald Elfman, Philip Freeman, Kurt Gottschalk, Tom Greenland, Anders Griffen, CD Reviews 14 Alex Henderson, Marcia Hillman, Terrell Holmes, Robert Iannapollo, Suzanne Lorge, Marc Medwin, Miscellany 41 Ken Micallef, Russ Musto, John Pietaro, Joel Roberts, John Sharpe, Elliott Simon, Event Calendar 42 Andrew Vélez, Ken Waxman Contributing Writers Tyran Grillo, George Kanzler, Matthew Kassel, Mark Keresman, Eric Wendell, Scott Yanow Jazz is a magical word. -
Jessica Hagedorn and Ntozake Shange’S Feminist and Poetic (Re)Visions
AFRO-FILIPINO ARCHIVES AND ARCHITECTURES: JESSICA HAGEDORN AND NTOZAKE SHANGE’S FEMINIST AND POETIC (RE)VISIONS A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English By Jewel S. Pereyra, B.A. Washington, D.C. March 14, 2018 Copyright 2018 by Jewel S. Pereyra All Rights Reserved ii AFRO-FILIPINO ARCHIVES AND ARCHITECTURES: JESSICA HAGEDORN AND NTOZAKE SHANGE’S FEMINIST AND POETIC (RE)VISIONS Jewel S. Pereyra, B.A. Thesis Advisor: Samantha Pinto, Ph.D. ABSTRACT During the 1970s Third World Liberation and Black Arts movements, Black and Asian American writers created transnational and artistic alliances. In particular, Filipino artist Jessica Hagedorn and Black feminist writer Ntozake Shange traveled and performed at readings together in San Francisco and New York. With poet Thulani Davis, they formed a trio called “The Satin Sisters” and co-authored plays and poems together. Hagedorn and Shange embodied the Third Worldist visions for Afro-Asian racial and feminist unity. However, current Afro-Asian scholarship seldom analyzes Filipino and African American feminist solidarities and privileges masculinist Afro-(East)Asian nationalisms. I recover these gaps by mining through the silenced archives—both print and expressive cultures—that reveal "Afro-Filipino” women’s exchanges. I argue that Hagedorn and Shange’s unique collaborations created felt architectures, sensorial spaces that center female intimacies and resistance through sound, touch, sight, and dance. Mapping these felt spaces, that resist patriarchal and colonial domination, this thesis first examines 1970s Third World anthologies, Hagedorn’s Dangerous Music (1975), and Shange’s Nappy Edges (1978). -
American Book Awards 2005
BEFORE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION PRESENTS THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS 2005 America was intended to be a place where freedom from discrimination was the means by which equality was achieved. Today, American culture THE is the most diverse ever on the face of this earth. Recognizing literary excel- lence demands a panoramic perspective. A narrow view strictly to the mainstream ignores all the tributaries that feed it. American literature is AMERICAN not one tradition but all traditions. From those who have been here for thousands of years to the most recent immigrants, we are all contributing to American culture. We are all being translated into a new language. BOOK Everyone should know by now that Columbus did not “discover” America. Rather, we are all still discovering America—and we must continue to do AWARDS so. The Before Columbus Foundation was founded in 1976 as a nonprofit educational and service organization dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature. The goals of BCF are to provide recognition and a wider audience for the wealth of cultural and ethnic diversity that constitutes American writing. BCF has always employed the term “multicultural” not as a description of an aspect of American literature, but as a definition of all American litera- ture. BCF believes that the ingredients of America’s so-called “melting pot” are not only distinct, but integral to the unique constitution of American Culture—the whole comprises the parts. In 1978, the Board of Directors of BCF (authors, editors, and publishers representing the multicultural diversity of American Literature) decided that one of its programs should be a book award that would, for the first time, respect and honor excellence in American literature without restric- tion or bias with regard to race, sex, creed, cultural origin, size of press or ad budget, or even genre. -
Complete Table of Contents
Complete Table of Contents Volume 1 Lois McMaster Bujold ........................................... 142 Publisher’s Note .......................................................ix Eve Bunting ........................................................... 145 Introduction .............................................................xi Octavia E. Butler ................................................... 148 About the Editors .................................................. xvii Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum ....................................... 153 List of Contributors ...............................................xix Hortense Calisher ................................................. 155 Complete Table of Contents .............................. xxvii Bebe Moore Campbell .......................................... 159 Mary Caponegro ................................................... 163 Abigail Adams ........................................................... 1 Anne Carson .......................................................... 166 Alice Adams ............................................................... 5 Lorene Cary ........................................................... 169 Jane Addams .............................................................. 9 Ana Castillo ........................................................... 172 C. S. Adler ................................................................ 15 Willa Cather........................................................... 176 Ai ............................................................................ -
FP 12.4 Winter1993.Pdf (4.166Mb)
WOMEN'S STUDIES LIBRARIAN The University of Wisconsin System EMINIST ERIODICALS A CURRENT LISTING OF CONTENTS VOLUME 12, NUMBER 4 WINTER 1993 Published by Phyllis Holman Weisbard Women's Studies Librarian University of Wisconsin System 430 Memorial Library / 728 State Street Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (608) 263-5754 EMINIST ERIODICALS A CURRENT LISTING OF CONTENTS Volume 12, Number 4 Winter 1993 Periodical literature is the cutting edge of women's scholarship, feminist theory, and much of women's culture. Feminist Periodicals: A Current Listing of Contents is published by the Office of the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian on a quarterly basis with the intent of increasing public awareness of feminist periodicals. It is our hope that Feminist Periodicals will serve several purposes: to keep the reader abreast of current topics in feminist literature; to increase readers' familiarity with a wide spectrum of feminist periodicals; and to provide the requisite bibliographic information should a reader wish to subscribe to a journal or to obtain a particular article at her library or through interlibrary loan. (Users will need to be aware of the limitations of the new copyright law with regard to photocopying of copyrighted materials.) Table of contents pages from current issues of majorfeminist journals are reproduced in each issue of Feminist Periodicals, preceded by a comprehensive annotated listing of all journals we have selected. As publication schedules vary enormously, not every periodical will have table of contents pages reproduced in each issue of FP. The annotated listing provides the following information on each journal: 1. Year of first publication.