Tag Archives: Hoyt W. Fuller
Conrad Kent Rivers: Of Mourning Songs and Revolutions
Conrad Kent Rivers’ success with poetry began in high school where his “Poor Peon” won the Savannah, Georgia, State Poetry Prize in 1951. He went on to publish poems in such magazines as the Antioch Review, the Kenyon Review, Negro … Continue reading
Hoyt W. Fuller: Voluntary Exiles
Hoyt W. Fuller (1923 – 1981) was one of the most revered figures in Chicago literary history, publishing articles and criticism for Negro Digest and Black World, the Chicago Defender, Tribune and Sun-Times, The Nation, the New Republic, and many … Continue reading
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