Furious Flower II - Blooming in the Whirlwind
Blooming in the Whirlwind locates Black poets within their historic moment and contextualizes them within relevant political movements - Civil Rights, Black Nationalism, post-colonialism and multiculturalism.
Furious Flower II - Cross-Pollination in the Diaspora
Cross-pollination in the Diaspora reflects upon the reciprocal influence between Black American poets and writers from the rest of the African literary Diaspora
Furious Flower II – Roots and First Fruits
Roots and First Fruits discusses the major influences shaping the creative origins, poetic voice and stylistic approach of these poets. Significant influences include regional language, historic context, geographic locat..
Furious Flower III - Cultivating a Poetry for Social Change, Resistance and Truth Telling
This volume recalls the key role played by poets as architects of the Black Arts Movement, their contribution to the African American Freedom Struggle and adaptation to the political changes of the past half-century. It ..
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..
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 teac..
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 t..
Goin' to Chicago
Goin' to Chicago chronicles one of the most momentous yet least heralded sagas of American history - the great migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North and West after World War II. F..
Homegoings
Through the eyes of funeral director Isaiah Owens, the beauty and grace of African American funerals are brought to life. Filmed at the Owens Funeral Home in Harlem and the rural South, director Christine Turner’s Home..
In Black and White: A Conversation With Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison explains her view of why "American literature is incoherent without the contribution of African American writers."