Word: afro
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...time is good to ask younger writers for whom that period is either a golden or rotten age [what effect the Black poetry of the 1960s had on their work]," Chairman of the Afro-American Department Werner Sollors said yesterday...
Black activists and writers will speak this weekend in a three-day retrospective of the legacy of Afro-American poetry and politics...
Sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department and Roxbury Community College, the conference will address the effect 1960s Black writers have had on contemporary poets and feature poets such as Angela Davis and Amiri Baraka...
Contemporary Black writers will discuss the influence their 1960s predecessors had on their own work. The 1960s witnessed a heyday in published Black poetry, said Carolivia O. Herron, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies and chair of the conference...
Compared with militant poems by writers like Baraka in the 1960s, poetry has become "more private, more personal, more subjective," said poet and author Ishmael Reed, visiting professor of Afro-American literature from the University of California at Berkeley...