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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Poet and Fiction Writer

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PUBLISHED: Apr.29.2003

Outlandish Blues

Fierce and sensual, the poems in Outlandish Blues merge everyday speech with a shimmering lyricism and burst from the page into song. Honorée Fanonne Jeffers sees the blues, what she terms the “shared ‘blue notes,’’’ as an important intersection between the secular and the divine, and between the various...

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The Gospel of Barbecue

The title poem of this collection tells of the creation of barbecue, how slaves cooked their masters' scraps into a survival food that became a cuisine. Powerful and moving, these poems teach how the "nasty leftovers" in life can be transformed into music, scripture, celebration.

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Red Clay Suite

In her third book of poems, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon. Her two earlier books of poetry, The Gospel of Barbecue and Outlandish Blues, use the blues poetic to explore notions of history and trauma. Now, in Red Clay Suite, Jeffers approaches the southern landscape as...

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Poem: "Lowercase Prayer" [Poem]

Short Story: "Soon One Morning" [Short Story]

Article: FOUR STAR BOOKS Three New Collections of Poetry from WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS [Review]

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Video: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers reading from Outlandish Blues and early versions of poems from Red Clay Suite

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Video: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers reads "Tuscaloosa: Riversong" from her first book, THE GOSPEL OF BARBECUE

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About Honorée

I'm the author of three books of poetry : The Gospel of Barbecue (Kent State, 2000), which was chosen by Lucille Clifton for the 1999 Wick Poetry Prize; Outlandish Blues (Wesleyan, 2000); and Red Clay Suite (Southern Illinois, 2007), which was...

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Causes Honorée Jeffers Supports

Women for Women

World Food Programme

Dzanc Books Creative Writing Sessions

Honorée Fanonne JeffersPoet and Fiction Writer

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Poet and Fiction Writer