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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 - The Flowering of African American Poetry Today
The conference’s final thematic focus was the role of formal innovation in defining and developing a Black aesthetics for the future. These seven poets explore directions which are “pushing the envelope” of African American poetic expression.