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Rita Dove Poetry Reading April 1, 2016
Rita Dove Poetry Reading April 1, 2016 Poetry & Spoken Word
Rita Dove
Rita Dove 0000000114709625 Dove was U.S. Poet Laureate, 1993-1995 Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, is known for her poetry collections, novel, and drama. She's been reco...
Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove
Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove MULTIPLE Prominent authors Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, ...
Collected Poems (paperback): 1974-2004
Collected Poems (paperback): 1974-2004 Rita Dove 9780393354935 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language...
Collected Poems: 1974–2004
Collected Poems: 1974–2004 Rita Dove 9780393285949 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unab...
Selected Poems
Selected Poems Rita Dove 9780679750802 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation’s Poet Laureate from 1993 to 19...
The Darker Face of the Earth: Completely Revised Second Edition
The Darker Face of the Earth: Completely Revised Second Edition Rita Dove 9781885266194 Poetry Story Line Press Red Hen Press The Darker Face of the Earth, the first full-length play by Pulitzer Prize...
Nah Dove
Nah Dove NONE Nah Dorothy Dove, Ph.D. is a proud mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She has lived in Ghana, Nigeria, Canada, the U.S., and the UK. She graduated with a PhD from the State Un...
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems Rita Dove 9781324050438 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Finalist for the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2021 NAACP Image Award ...
Grace Notes: Poems
Grace Notes: Poems Rita Dove 9780393306965 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. With this her fourth book of poems, Rita Dove expands her role as a leading voice in contemporary ...
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry Rita Dove 9780143121480 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House In time for the holiday season, a beautiful paperback edition of Penguin’s ...
2016 National Black Writers Conference
2016 National Black Writers Conference Troy Johnson Article Update: March 25, 2016 The Conference's Complete and final Schedule of Events is Now Available. Greetings Colleagues, We are excited a...
Museum (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry)
Museum (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry) Rita Dove 9780887481475 Poetry Carnegie-Mellon University Press Carnegie-Mellon University Press A reissuing of Museum, poems by Rita Dove.
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky
Resisting Arrest poems to stretch the sky Mark Doty, Martin Espada, Joy Harjo, Marilyn Nelson, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Yusef Komunyakaa, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Rita Dove 9780936481098 Poetry Ja...
The Yellow House on the Corner
The Yellow House on the Corner Rita Dove 9780887480928 Poetry Carnegie-Mellon University Press Carnegie-Mellon University Press When Carnegie Mellon University Press first published The Yellow House o...
Thomas and Beulah
Thomas and Beulah Rita Dove 9780887480218 Poetry Carnegie-Mellon University Press Carnegie-Mellon University Press A collection of poetry by Rita Dove.
American Smooth: Poems
American Smooth: Poems Rita Dove 9780393059878 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. This exciting new collection pays homage to America’s kaleidoscopic cultural heritage: from th...
On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems
On the Bus with Rosa Parks: Poems Rita Dove 9780393320268 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A dazzling new collection by the former Poet Laureate of the United States. In thes...
Mother Love: Poems
Mother Love: Poems Rita Dove 9780393314441 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Calling upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Mother Love examines the love betwe...
The Poet’s World
The Poet’s World Rita Dove 9780844408743 Poetry Library of Congress Library of Congress Publishing Book by Dove, Rita
April Gibson
April Gibson NONE April Gibson is a poet, writer, and professor from the South Side of Chicago. She is a winner of The Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and a Loft L...
Molefi Kete Asante and Nah Dove
Molefi Kete Asante and Nah Dove MULTIPLE Molefi Kete Asante and Nah Dove are renowned authors known for their significant contributions to African studies. They have enriched the field with their pro...
April Ryan
April Ryan 0000000437119582 April Ryan is a White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks since the Clinton era and a CNN political analyst. She has been featured in numerous renowned p...
If the Creek Don’t Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War
If the Creek Don’t Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War Rita Williams 9780151011544 Nonfiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt When Rita Williams was ...
Rita Daniels
Rita Daniels NONE Rita Daniels is the great-great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman, is the President and Founder of the Harriet Tubman Learning Center. Rita Daniels, the great-great-great grandnie...
Rita Williams-Garcia
Rita Williams-Garcia 0000000067575336 Rita Williams-Garcia, a PEN/Norma Klein Award winner, is known for her distinguished young adult and middle-grade novels, including ALA Best Books and Coretta Sc...
Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Renée Watson, Rita Williams-Garcia, and others
Ibi Zoboi, Tracey Baptiste, Coe Booth, Dhonielle Clayton, Brandy Colbert, Jay Coles, Lamar Giles, Leah Henderson, Justina Ireland, Varian Johnson, Kekla Magoon, Jason Reynolds, Nic Stone, Renée Watso...
Rita Woods
Rita Woods NONE Rita Woods is a family doctor, wellness center director, and author of her debut novel, Remembrance. Balancing her professional life with family time and involvement in her local libr...
April Sinclair
April Sinclair NONE April Sinclair, a Chicago native, is a renowned author and community activist. Known for her dedicated activism in Oakland and her unique approach to her literary debut, Sinclair'...
Seed
Seed Thumper Book Review ’"The measure of a man", my father once said, "is in his scars. Without a scar he isn’t even a man. He is, merely, male."’ ―from...
Valjeanne Jeffers
Valjeanne Jeffers NONE Valjeanne Jeffers, a graduate of Spelman College and North Carolina Central University, is a member of the Carolina African American Writer’s Collective. She is a published poe...
Top 50 Authors, Bestselling Books, and More
Top 50 Authors, Bestselling Books, and More Troy Johnson Article 50 Favorite African-American Authors of the 20th Century 1,826 readers cast votes, back in 2001, for their favorite African-Ameri...
Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels
Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels MULTIPLE Jean Marie Wiesen, is a noted investigative author and mystery crime writer. Rita Daniels, the great-great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman.
C. J. Chase, Carrie Fancett Pagels, Erica Vetsch, Gabrielle Meyer, Kathleen L. Maher, Lorna Seilstad, Rita Gerlach, and Vanessa Riley
C. J. Chase, Carrie Fancett Pagels, Erica Vetsch, Gabrielle Meyer, Kathleen L. Maher, Lorna Seilstad, Rita Gerlach, and Vanessa Riley MULTIPLE "C.J. Chase, Carrie Fancett Pagels, Erica Vetsch, Gabrie...
Rita Lorraine Hubbard
Rita Lorraine Hubbard NONE Rita Lorraine Hubbard is a renowned author of nonfiction books for adults and children, including the award-winning 'Hammering for Freedom'. She also manages the children's...
Sonata Mulattica: Poems
Sonata Mulattica: Poems Rita Dove 9780393338935 Poetry W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Detailing the volatile relationship between the black violinist George Bridgetower and Beetho...
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The Afrocentric School [a Blueprint]
The Afrocentric School [a Blueprint] Nah Dove 9781942774136 Nonfiction Universal Write Publications Universal Write Publications Who are we? is a central question asked throughout the African Diaspora...
Through the Ivory Gate: A novel
Through the Ivory Gate: A novel Rita Dove 9780679742401 Poetry Vintage Penguin Random House A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. When a woman returns to her Midwestern ho...
Museum
Museum Rita Dove 9780915604784 Poetry Carnegie-Mellon University Press Carnegie-Mellon University Press Her second book of poetry.
April Maria Williams
April Maria Williams NONE April Maria Williams is a Juris Doctor from Florida A&M University College of Law and a Master of Tax Law from the University of Houston. A prominent advocate for social jus...
9 Questions for April Ryan, White House Correspondent
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The Darker Face Of Earth: A Verse Play
The Darker Face Of Earth: A Verse Play Rita Dove 9780934257749 Poetry Story Line Press Red Hen Press The Darker Face of the Earth, a play by the poet laureate of the United States, creates a human dra...
The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers: Adventures in Sex, Literature, and Real Life
The Sexual Mountain and Black Women Writers: Adventures in Sex, Literature, and Real Life Calvin C. Hernton 9780385418270 Nonfiction Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House The author of...
Sexual Mountain
Sexual Mountain Calvin C. Hernton 9780385239219 Nonfiction Doubleday Books Penguin Random House The author of Sex and Racism in America argues here that black men, who dominate the world of black lite...
Fifth Sunday
Fifth Sunday Rita Dove 9780912759067 Poetry University Press of Kentucky University Press of Kentucky stories by Pulitzer Prize poet
Only Dark Spot in the Sky
Only Dark Spot in the Sky Rita Dove 9789991666624 Poetry Bookslinger Bookslinger
2016: Obama’s America
2016: Obama’s America Dinesh Sharma 2016-obamas-america.jpg Film Review 2016: Obama’s America (2012) In Theaters: Jul 13, 2012 Limited PG, 1 hr. 29 min. Documentary, Special Interest D...
Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy
Love, Rita: An American Story of Sisterhood, Joy, Loss, and Legacy Bridgett M. Davis 9780063322080 Nonfiction Harper HarperCollins A searing tribute of sisterhood and family, love and profound loss fr...
Afaa Michael Weaver Poetry Reading April 1, 2016
Afaa Michael Weaver Poetry Reading April 1, 2016 Poetry & Spoken Word
May 2017 Newsletter: Bestselling Books, New Books, Author Info, and Much More
May 2017 Newsletter: Bestselling Books, New Books, Author Info, and Much More Troy Johnson Article Our May Newsletter is Generously Sponsored by Amistad Bestselling Books Bestselling Books: M...
April Reynolds
April Reynolds NONE April Reynolds, award-winning author of 'Knee-Deep in Wonder', is a distinguished faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. She has also taught at NYU and the 92nd Street Y. April Reynol...
April R. Silver
April R. Silver NONE April R. Silver is a renowned marketing strategist, cultural curator, and social justice activist. As the founder of AKILA WORKSONGS, she's known for creating influential social ...
April Simpkins
April Simpkins NONE April Simpkins is a mental health advocate, serving as an ambassador for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and a board member for NAMI Piedmont Tri-County, where she...
9 Questions for April Ryan, White House Correspondent
9 Questions for April Ryan, White House Correspondent Kam Williams Interview April D. Ryan is veteran journalist who has been a White House correspondent for the past 18 years. Besides coverin...
Rita Williams-Garcia
Rita Williams-Garcia Mélina Mangal 9781584152170 Nonfiction Mitchell Lane Mitchell Lane Publishers This work explores the life and literary career of Rita Williams-Garcia, the award-winning African Am...
Peacocks Dancing
Peacocks Dancing Sharon Maas 9780007118472 Fiction Bookouture Bookouture Another magical saga by the author of Of Marriageable Age. How many of us think as adults we’childhood? And how many manage to...
Why Are We Still Married?: Political Cartoons of 2016
Why Are We Still Married?: Political Cartoons of 2016 Darrin Bell 9781981413768 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC The year 2016 in political cartoons by Darrin Bell of the Washington Post W...
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry Camille T. Dungy 9780820332772 Poetry University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Black Nature is the first anthology to focu...
Being Human Being: Transforming the Race Discourse
Being Human Being: Transforming the Race Discourse Molefi Kete Asante and Nah Dove 9781942774099 Nonfiction Universal Write Publications Universal Write Publications “If there’s anything that has prev...
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read Rita Lorraine Hubbard 9781524768287 Nonfiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books Imagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover th...
Yusef Komunyakaa
Yusef Komunyakaa 000000011440862X Yusef Komunyakaa the first African American male to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry Yusef Komunyakaa, born on April 29, 1947, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet recog...
Power And Possibility: Essays, Reviews, And Interviews (Poets On Poetry)
Power And Possibility: Essays, Reviews, And Interviews (Poets On Poetry) Elizabeth Alexander 9780472069378 Poetry University of Michigan Press University of Michigan Press A volume in the Poets on Poe...
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry Arnold Rampersad and Hilary Herbold 9780195125634 Poetry Oxford University Press Oxford University Press For over two centuries, black poets have create...
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry
The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry Clarence Major 9780060951214 Poetry Harper Perennial HarperCollins The Garden Thrives: 20th Century African-American Poetry, edited by Cla...
Notes on a Blacklash: When a Black Woman Goes Viral
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Cheslie Kryst and April Simpkins
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April Harrison
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Michelle Rhnea Yisrael, Jamillah Kareem, April Weaver, and Marcella Graves
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A Sitting in St. James
A Sitting in St. James Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062367297 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award!Monumental. —Booklist (starred review)A marathon masterpiece...
Like Sisters on the Homefront
Like Sisters on the Homefront Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062823922 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Rita Williams-Garcia’s masterful and bold Coretta Scott King Honor Book is fresh, funny, and pow...
Nina
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Ursula M. Burns
Ursula M. Burns 0000000445332455 Ursula M. Burns is a pioneering American businesswoman, the first black woman to become a Fortune 500 CEO at Xerox, where she served from 2009-2016. She was also Chai...
June 2016 Newsletter Celebrating the Best in Black Literature
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The Tradition
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Robin Coste Lewis
Robin Coste Lewis NONE Robin Coste Lewis, a Provost's Fellow at USC, Cave Canem fellow and LA Institute for Humanities fellow, is known for her wide-ranging poetry. With an MFA from NYU and MTS from ...
Bottle Cap Boys Dancing On Royal Street
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Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry
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Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945
Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 Michael S. Harper 9780316347105 Poetry Back Bay Books Hachette Book Group Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep is a rich ...
The Edge of Yesterday
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Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore
Harriet Tubman: Military Scout and Tenacious Visionary: From Her Roots in Ghana to Her Legacy on the Eastern Shore Jean Marie Wiesen and Rita Daniels 9781639368136 Nonfiction Pegasus Books Pegasus Boo...
The Last Dreamwalker
The Last Dreamwalker Rita Woods 9781250805614 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers From Hurston/Wright Legacy Award-winning author Rita Woods, The Last Dreamwalker tells the story of two women, separate...
Philly Girl 2: Carl Weber Presents
Philly Girl 2: Carl Weber Presents Marcus Weber 9781645562801 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Philly Girl 2 will have you re-evaluating the bonds of friendship and love. It will make y...
She Persisted: Florence Griffith Joyner
She Persisted: Florence Griffith Joyner Rita Williams-Garcia 9780593115954 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton ...
Every Time a Rainbow Dies
Every Time a Rainbow Dies Rita Williams-Garcia 9780063079267 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins From Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia, Every Time a Rainbow Di...
Jumped
Jumped Rita Williams-Garcia 9780063079281 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Beloved author Rita Williams-Garcia intertwines the lives of three very different teens in this fast-paced, gritty narr...
No Laughter Here
No Laughter Here Rita Williams-Garcia 9780063079298 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins In this groundbreaking novel, Coretta Scott King Award winner Rita Williams-Garcia uses her vividly realistic...
Remembrance
Remembrance Rita Woods 9781250298454 Fiction Forge Macmillan Publishers Remembrance by Rita Woods is a breakout historical debut with modern resonance, perfect for the many fans of The Underground Rai...
Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set: One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, Gone Crazy in Alabama
Gaither Sisters Trilogy Box Set: One Crazy Summer, P.S. Be Eleven, Gone Crazy in Alabama Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062889652 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins All three books in the Coretta Scott ...
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062215918 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A National Book Award Longlist title that has earned 5 starred reviews!"This slim novel strikes a strong ...
Gone Crazy in Alabama
Gone Crazy in Alabama Rita Williams-Garcia 9780062215871 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Coretta Scott King Award Winner and AALBC.com bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of the Gait...
A Love So Deep (Zane Presents)
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One Crazy Summer
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Catherine Mann
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This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets
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