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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

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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

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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

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