Black Fire—This Time, Volume 2

Black Fire—This Time, Volume 2 PDF Author: Derrick Harriell
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1734827343
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Book Description
In this follow-up volume in the Black Fire—This Time series, over seventy-five poets and writers come together on the ongoing theme of "Black is Beautiful, Black is Powerful, Black is Home." Works ranging from poetry, fiction, essays, and drama cover a wide range of Black literature. This "continuum" of writing, as coined by Volume 1 editor Kim McMillon, brings together legends of the Black Arts era with contemporary writers in the tradition. This edition includes a hallmark work from the Black Arts era, We Own the Night by playwright and one of the last living legends Jimmy Garrett. Volume 2 of Black Fire—This Time will educate and inspire the next generation.

Black Fire—This Time, Volume 2

Black Fire—This Time, Volume 2 PDF Author: Derrick Harriell
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1734827343
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Book Description
In this follow-up volume in the Black Fire—This Time series, over seventy-five poets and writers come together on the ongoing theme of "Black is Beautiful, Black is Powerful, Black is Home." Works ranging from poetry, fiction, essays, and drama cover a wide range of Black literature. This "continuum" of writing, as coined by Volume 1 editor Kim McMillon, brings together legends of the Black Arts era with contemporary writers in the tradition. This edition includes a hallmark work from the Black Arts era, We Own the Night by playwright and one of the last living legends Jimmy Garrett. Volume 2 of Black Fire—This Time will educate and inspire the next generation.

The Fire This Time

The Fire This Time PDF Author: Jesmyn Ward
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501126350
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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"Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this ... collection of essays and poems about race from ... voices of her generation and our time"--

Black Fire--This Time, Volume 2

Black Fire--This Time, Volume 2 PDF Author: Derrick Harriell
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi/Aquarius Press/Willow Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The follow-up collection to the groundbreaking first anthology

Black Fire

Black Fire PDF Author: Imamu Amiri Baraka
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Everything Is Necessary

Everything Is Necessary PDF Author: Keisha Gaye Anderson
Publisher: Willow Books/Aquarius Press
ISBN: 9781732209121
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Poetry collection by Jamaican-born poet, creative writer, visual artist, and media professional. After graduating from Syracuse University (Newhouse and College of Arts and Science), Anderson began her career in television production at CBS News, where she worked as an associate producer for long-form documentaries like "A&E Biography." She went on to work as an associate producer for "NOW With Bill Moyers." Her poetry and essays have appeared in a number of national literary magazines, journals, and anthologies.

Raising King

Raising King PDF Author: Joseph Ross
Publisher: Willow Books/Aquarius Press
ISBN: 9781734827385
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Poetry collection on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 PDF Author: Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470671939
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1125

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Book Description
The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium. Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studies Selects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of leading professors Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of major works than any other anthology of its kind This second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the present The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings.

Me Drawing a Picture of Me[n]

Me Drawing a Picture of Me[n] PDF Author: Rachelle Escamilla
Publisher: Willow Publishing
ISBN: 9781732209138
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Poetry collection by Rachelle Escamilla, Library of Congress Visiting Scholar. Escamilla is the producer and host of the longest running poetry radio show in the United States, Out of Our Minds, and the founder of the Poets & Writers Coalition at San Jose State University. From 2012- 2014 Rachelle lived in China where she co-founded The Sun Yat-sen University English-language Center for Creative Writing and headed a lecture series at the American Center of the United States Consulate of Guangzhou. She is the winner of the Virginia de Arujo Academy of American Poets prize and she teaches Creative Writing and Social Action at California State University Monterey Bay.

Why I Am Like Tequila

Why I Am Like Tequila PDF Author: Lupe Mendez
Publisher: Willow Publishing
ISBN: 9781732209176
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Poetry collection by Lupe Mendez, poet, teacher and activist. Why I Am Like Tequila is a collection of poetry spanning a decade of writing and performance. This collection exists in 4 parts - each a layered perspective, a look through a Mexican/ Mexican-American voice living in the Texas Gulf Coast. Set within spaces such as Galveston Island, Houston, the Rio Grande Valley and Jalisco, Mexico, these poems peel away at all parts, like the maguey, drawing to craft spirits, quenching a thirst between land and sea.

Where I Was Born

Where I Was Born PDF Author: Naoko Fujimoto
Publisher: Willow Publishing
ISBN: 9781732209183
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Poetry collection by Naoko Fujimoto. Editor's Choice, Willow Books. Born and raised in Nagoya, Japan, Fujimoto is currently a Chicago-area graphic poetry artist. A RHINO associate editor, Fujimoto's Poetry & Art site introduces readers to graphic poetry and showcases book projects.