Showing posts with label black women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black women. Show all posts
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Special Issue on Paule Marshall

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The vagaries of literary fortune are such that a writer who was quite famous in her time might very well be forgotten a decade later, ...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Tracy K. Smith New Poet Laureate of the US + Poem

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Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths In a marvelous move, the new Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden , has just named Tracy K. Smith  (197...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Call and Response: The Gift of Women Poets

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Ntozake Shange in 1977 (© Marilyn K. Yee/New York Times) A month ago, poet, critic, activist, and visionary  Amy King sent out a call ...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Between the Lines: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie & Zadie Smith

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Just days after winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction  for her extraordinary novel Americanah (Knopf, 2013), Chimamand...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

"The Black Female Body in Art" Panel at the Brooklyn Museum

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"How has the black female body been idealized and misread in visual culture?" And: "How might these tendencies affect black ...
Sunday, April 17, 2011

Poems: Muriel Rukeyser

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I have been thinking about poetry, politics, political poetry and the politics of poetry quite a bit of late, and one poet from the middle y...
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Friday, June 04, 2010

Aaarg.org Is Dead, Long Live Capital(isms) + Danto Responds to Queries on Art + NY Times on Black Straight Women's Marriage Prospects + 77 Banks Gone Under: Did You Know That?

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For five years or so, an unheralded P2P site featuring a massive intellectual trove existed, mostly under the radar, and now it's dead....