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For writers and poets, Knight is claimed as an Indianapolis author of five collections of poetry that remain influential through generations. His subjects â Black art and experience in America, the importance of family, the rewards of artistic expression â are as relevant today as they were when he was writing. He was a champion of poetry and its transformative power. Heâs the author who famously declared, âI died in Korea from a shrapnel wound, and narcotics resurrected me. I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life.â He died in Indianapolis in 1991 and is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery. ....
1 / of 2 Writing Black Lives Matter: Maxine Beneba Clarke and Angie Thomas on their latest books for children and young people Posted TueTuesday 9 updated TueTuesday 9 MarMarch 2021 at 10:28pm Angie Thomas has recently published a sequel to her 2017 smash-hit young adult book The Hate U Give. ( Print text only Cancel Angie Thomas currently has not one but two books on the New York Times Young Adult bestsellers list. It s a rare feat, all the more remarkable because one of the books isn t even a new release. The Hate U Give was directly inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, and while it was hugely successful on its release in 2017, the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 saw it re-enter the bestsellers list. ....
THE INVISIBILITY OF black women has been much on my mind of late. Asked recently to speak on the topic “Can women artists take back the nude from a voyeuristic male gaze as a site to represent their own subjectivity?” I have to discard the premise: from mass culture to high culture, white women may have been objects of the fetishizing gaze, but black women have had only the blank stare. In fact we feel lucky when we get to take our clothes off. Manet’s Olympia, Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon, and Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party, 1973–78, are landmarks in our unseeing erasure by both the multicolored male and the white female. I believe in the mathematics of myth, which is why I’m always asking, How many black women in this anthology? in this exhibit? in this picture? What are they made to signify? Of the 39 places at Chicago’s dinner table, 35 are set with plates painted with vaginas that glow miraculously. Sojourner Truth, the only black guest, must ....
Discover incredible Black authors with upcoming webinar In celebration of Black History Month at the University of Calgary, the Faculty of Arts is hosting a variety of webinars over the course of February, including webinars on Black art, history, culture and literature. On Feb. 25 from 3:30 – 5 p.m., Dr. Suzette Mayr will be presenting a webinar titled The Value of Black Literature, which will explore Black literature and history in Canada, specifically Black prairie literature, and will also discuss her latest work in progress, The Sleeping Car Porter, a historical novel about a Black, queer railway porter. A creative writing professor in the Department of English, Mayr has written five previous novels, most of which tend to focus on Black queer narratives, Mayr says, such as her most recent book, ....