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A Revolution of Black Poets Produced in the tradition of the Black Poetry Festivals and Conferences of the Black Arts Movement, this first National festival of contemporary Black Poetry took place at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the University of Maryland on September 11th and 12th 1998. Below are additional bios. of the events participants |
Nichole D. Shields
Picking us bits and pieces of conversations, as well as tapping into her personal archives
of "lessons learned," the writings of Nichole D. Shields are inspired by
everyday, down-to-Earth people who add new dimensions to her writing. Nichole was one of
three winners at the 1995 and 1997 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry
Competitions at The Annual Black Writer's Conference at Chicago State University.
Currently editing a collection of creative writing by Black women. Nichole looks forward
to the publication of her first volume of essays: "Dead Men Don't Vote" and her
first children's book, "The Hand That Feeds Ya."
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Peter J. Harris
is the founding publisher/editor of "The Drumming Between Us: Black Love & Erotic
Poetry," a Los Angeles Magazine, and author of "Hand Me My Griot Clothes: The
Autobiography of a Junior Baby." His fiction has been published in the best-selling
anthology Breaking Ice, edited by Terry McMillan. Harris's poetry
has been published in "In Search of Color Everywhere" edited by E. Ethelbert Miller, and I Hear a Symphony: African Americans
Celebrate Love, edited by Paula Woods and Felix Lidell.
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June Jordan
is a political activist and award-winning poet and essayist. She is the recipient of the
1995 Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers Award and the author of over twenty books,
including "Civil Wars," "Technical Difficulties" "Haruko/Love
Poems," and the Libretto "I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the
sky." A frequent contributor to "The Progressive" June is a professor of
African American Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Cal, Berkley.
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Nadir Lasana
Bomani
Nadir is a New Orleans writer born and raised in the ninth ward. His works have appeared
in "FreeForm Magazine," "Dark Eros," Fertile Ground," "A
Bend In the River," and the forthcoming anthology, "Speak The Truth To The
People."
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All biographical information provided above compiled from promotional material obtained by Kwame Alexander
