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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...
...there are still people writing political poetry," Reed added...
Black writers also face problems of tokenism, as evidenced by the typical under-representation of their work in anthologies, said Reed. "We are a multi-cultural civilization, but you really have to go out of your way to find a literary power to recognize that. It will be a long battle before it is canonized," Reed said...
This morning June Jordan and Reed will speak, and this afternoon Davis will appear with Lorna Goodison and Etheridge Knight. Both programs will be held at the Massachusetts College of Art in Roxbury...
...Saturday the program will move to the Boston Public Library and on Sunday Harvard will host H. Rap Brown, Dove and Reed...