Search Results for African American poetry

...Christian P. Haines; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article examines the poetry of Danez Smith as a practice of commoning. It introduces the concept of the uncommons as a way of thinking about how African American literature, culture, and political practice develop egalitarian forms...

...) was selected for the 2021 Center for African American Poetry & Poetics Book Prize Robin Gow is a trans poet and young adult author from rural Pennsylvania. They are the author of Our Lady of Perpetual Degeneracy (2020) and the chapbook Honeysuckle (2019). Their first young adult novel, A Million Quiet...

... for the Poetry Society of America s New York Chapbook Fellowship. She is the author of the poetry collection American Gramophone (2015). Samantha Memi is the author of Kate Moss and Other Heroines (2012). She has published in Fiction International, Cortland Review, and Birkensnake. Her translations from Spanish...

... Coast, the Greensboro Review, Quarterly West, Willow Springs, Salt Hill, Atlanta Review, jubilat, Mid-American Review, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, West Branch, Meridian, PANK, and elsewhere, and they have been reprinted on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and in the 2007 edi- tion of The Best...

... Poetry Review. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Winter Tangerine Review, Florida Review, Barely South Review, and TriQuarterly. Michael A. Chaney is a professor of English and chair of the African and African American Studies Program at Dartmouth College. His book, Reading...

..., to be published by SUNY 326 the minnesota review Press, Over Ten Million Served: Gendered Service in Language and Literature Workplaces. Sharon P. Holland lives, works, and writes in Durham, NC. She is a member of the English, African and African American Studies...

... Womanhood: The Emergence of the African American Woman Novelist (Oxford UP, 1987) and Race Men (Harvard UP, 1998), among others, and is currently working on a book to be titled Child of Empire. She is Dilley Professor of African American Studies...

... Literature, African- American Review, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, the minnesota review, and the collection Bad Modernisms (2006). Madigan Haley is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, where his research focuses on novel the- ory, world literature...

..., and Thrush Poetry Journal. He studies English and creative writing at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Taylor Johnson is a poet from Washington, DC. They are a Callaloo Fellow and a docent at the National Museum of African Art. Patrick Kindig is a dual MFA/PhD candidate at Indiana...

... history, the history of capitalism, the history of higher education, and the global history of the humanities. He is author of Deconstruction: An American Institution (2021). Courtney Moffett-Bateau , PhD, teaches African American studies at Wayne State University and has lectured at the Humboldt...

... © 2021 Virginia Tech 2021 Contributors Creative D. M. Aderibigbe is from Lagos, Nigeria. His debut book of poems, How the End First Showed (2018), won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and a Florida Book Award, and it was the finalist for the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poets. He has...

... (2020). Adedayo is the editor in chief at Agbowó: An African magazine of literature and art . Sara Burge is the author of Apocalypse Ranch (2010), and her poetry has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review , Willow Springs , Prairie Schooner , CALYX Journal , The Louisville Review , The Los...

...: Paradigm, 2006. Plotz, John. Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008. Richards, Phillip M. Black Heart: The Moral Life of Recent African American Letters. New York: Peter Lang, 2006. Rohman, Carrie. Stalking the Subject: Modernism and the Animal...

... cosmopolitanism with racism and genocide at its core (“dead Africans in the passageway and for Trethewey, the pre- cariousness of life in the face of ecological devastation (“Everything is gone In each case, the totalizing vision of earlier prospect poetry is relocated in the situated standpoint...

..., she is an assistant poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine, and her work has appeared in The Drunken Boat, Torch Poetry: A Journal for African American Women, Union Station Magazine, and Bestiary Mag- azine. She is currently a writer in residence with the InsideOut Liter­ ary Arts Project. She lives...

... States. Maria refuses to learn or use the standard academic English (SAE) due to its associated social stigma and the affiliations her use of it would suggest to her peers, who were mainly African American. Maria claims to be half Coolidge Toker 125 African...

..., Crab Orchard Review, the minnesota review, Bloom, Lumina, Philadelphia Stories, Baobab: South African Journal of New Writing, X-24: Unclassified, and others. She is the winner of the Charles Johnson Fiction Award, the James Baldwin Memorial Playwriting Award, and has won Shortlist...

... of privilege. The Delany family was among the most prominent African-American dynasties of mid-twentieth-century New York. Delany's uncles included Myles Paige, the first black criminal court judge in the state of New York; Judge Hubert Delany, a towering figure in the mid-century civil rights...

... A., and Harryette Mullen. 2000. An Interview with Harryette Mullen. Contemporary Literature 41, no. 3: 397 421. Lease, Joseph. 2003. Progressive Lit Amiri Baraka, Bruce Andrews, and the Poli- tics of the Lyric I African American Review 32, nos. 2 3: 389 98. McGann, Jerome. 1988. Social Values and Poetics Acts...

... terms by Left aesthetics and politics” (6). Conn does devote an entire chapter to leftist figures, including Kenneth Patchen, Clifford Odets, John Dos Passos, and Ben Shahn and—as if leftists and African Americans were distinct categories, which, during this period...