Author Archives: Richard Guzman
Carolyn Rodgers’ Foreword to Black Writing from Chicago
In 2005 Carolyn Rodgers agreed to write a Foreword to my book Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It? which came out the following year. Gracious to me in print as she was in person, her words not only … Continue reading
Posted in Black Writers, Chicago Writing
Tagged Alex Haley, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Black Writing from Chicago, Carolyn Rodgers, Chicago as literary center for Black Writing, DuSable Museum, Gwendolyn Brooks, Hoyt W. Fuller, James Baldwin, John H. Johnson, Jump Bad, Margaret Burroughs, Margaret Danner, Margaret Walker, NOMMO, OBAC, Roots
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Carolyn Rodgers inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
This past Friday, the last day of November 2012, Carolyn Rodgers (1945-2010) was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. With her in this third class of inductees: James T. Farrell, Langston Hughes, Jane Addams, Sherwood Anderson, and Ernest Hemingway. … Continue reading
Posted in Black Writers, Chicago Writing, Diversity & Multiculturalism
Tagged A Train Called Judah, Black Writing from Chicago, Carolyn M. Rodgers, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Ernest Hemingway, How i got ovah, James T. Farrell, Jane Addams, Langston Hughes, National Book Award, Prodigal Objects, Richard R. Guzman, Sherwood Anderson, Smokestacks and Skyscrapers, Society of Midland Authors Poet Laureate, Teaching Diversity, We're Only Human
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Takers, Makers, and the Fiscal Cliff
No person, no organization, is without its paradoxes and contradictions. In fact, these often make the person, the organization, more interesting and intriguing. By this standard—though our President and his party have plenty of paradox and contradiction about them—few persons … Continue reading →