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Furious Flower III – Pollinating and Dispersing – Black Poetry Collectives and the Diaspora
This grouping looks at the centripetal and centrifugal forces shaping Black poetry today, both collective practices and growing ties with the poets and poetry of the world-wide African Diaspora. These eight poets speak to the underlying unity of the...
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Furious Flower III – Cultivating Form, Creating the Black Aesthetic
The seven poets in this opening volume discuss and demonstrate the formal and stylistic characteristics of an evolving Black aesthetic, both in their own poetry and their peers’. It features a special panel on the teaching of African American poet...