African-American Authors | African-American Authors
Jul.23.2010
I read a post on author Tayari Jones’ blog earlier this month, that hasn’t left my mind. She asks why books by black writers aren’t considered universal, starting her post with these words:
“In the last few years, black writers have been speaking out about double standards in the world of...
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Mar.29.2010
Octavia Estelle Butler achieved the unprecedented feat of winning three major science fiction awards--the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards, all in 1985--before going on in 1995 to also win the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award. This achievement, in addition to a number of other honors, established...
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Mar.24.2010
Intimate Conversation with Tia Stewart, Poet and Novelist
Tia Stewart is an award-winning African-American writer whose penchant for verbiage started in the fifth grade when her teachers thought she was passing handwritten notes about boys, but she and her best friend were editing each other’s...
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Mar.20.2010
That the painting, Portrait of a Young Man (a.k.a. Artist Spirit), by the New Orleans and New York City based artist Gustave Blache III, adorned the cover of my first book, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry, has long been a source of intense private joy. That joy recently transformed into something...
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Jan.22.2010
Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" showed me that a writer can create a complete, vivid world in a very few deceptively simple words. Before I read her brilliant short story, I thought great literature had to last for days and be inpenetrable. But in only three pages, "Girl"...
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Oct.22.2009
For years I have been telling myself and my friends that my favorite city is Paris, France, but the fact is I have never been there. Yet I have this strange memory--as false as a five-dollar bill with a grinning jack-o-lantern where Abraham Lincoln's noble beard should be--that likes to...
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Oct.11.2009
The celebration of one literary laureate kicked off when the Swedish Academy in Stockholm awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature to German-Romanian Herta Mϋller October 8, 2009. The celebration of another literary laureate got underway October 7, when Amiri Baraka, one of African America's...
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Apr.02.2009
For Part 1 of The Great Old Man Mystical Poet on the Mountain Please Click Here
For Poetic Notes on beatmeister Jack Kerouac Enjoy this link
To continue the adventures of The Great Old Man Mystical Poet, please read on:
Where the hell had that crack about me being "the old man on a mountain...
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