Tonight in honor of Black History Month, the Office of Cultural Diversity at SMSU hosted "For the Love of Poetry"--wonderful readings by students and faculty of African-American poets such as James Weldon Johnson ("The Creation"), Nikki Giovanni ("Make-Up"), Langston Hughes ("A Dream Deferred"), and Lucille Clifton ("Memory").
I especially enjoyed watching three of my current creative writing students do a great job performing their chosen poems: "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou, "Motives and Thoughts" by Lauryn Hill, and "Strange Fruit," written by teacher Abel Meeropol and sung most famously by Billie Holiday.
Between readings, we watched an excellent YouTube video of Cicely Tyson performing Sojourner Truth's speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
Who are your favorite African-American writers? What are your favorite books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry by African-American writers?
I especially enjoyed watching three of my current creative writing students do a great job performing their chosen poems: "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou, "Motives and Thoughts" by Lauryn Hill, and "Strange Fruit," written by teacher Abel Meeropol and sung most famously by Billie Holiday.
Between readings, we watched an excellent YouTube video of Cicely Tyson performing Sojourner Truth's speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
Who are your favorite African-American writers? What are your favorite books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry by African-American writers?
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