| Jayne Cortez - "Womanist Warrior Poet"
Jayne Cortez is the author of eleven books of poetry and performer of her poems with music on nine recordings. Her voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic innovations in lyricism, and visceral sound. Cortez has presented her work and ideas at universities, museums, and festivals around the world. Her poems have been translated into many languages and widely published in anthologies, journals, and magazines. She is a recipient of several awards including: Arts International, the National Endowment for the Arts, the International African Festival Award. The Langston Hughes Medal, The American Book Award, and the Thelma McAndless Distinguished Professorship Award. Her most recent books include THE BEAUTIFUL
BOOK (Bola Press) and JAZZ FAN LOOKS BACK (Hanging Loose Press).
Her latest CDs with the Firespitter Band are FIND YOUR OWN
VOICE, BORDERS OF DISORDERLY TIME (Bola Press), TAKING THE BLUES
BACK HOME, produced by Harmolodic and by Verve Records. Cortez
is organizer of the international symposium "Slave Routes:
Resistance, Abolition & Creative Progress" (NYU) and director of
the film Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissecting
Globalization. She is co-founder and president of the
Organization of Women Writers of Africa, Inc., and can be seen
on screen in the films Women In Jazz and Poetry In Motion.
Poetry
In fact Today poems are like flags & does it matter In fact
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