Tag Archives: Margaret Danner

Margaret Danner: Ethereal Strength

Margaret Danner (1915-1984) began winning poetry awards in the eighth grade.  In 1945 she won second prize in the Poetry Workshop Award at Northwestern, and went on to win such awards as a John Hay Whitney Fellowship (1951), the Harriet … 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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