The Academy of American Poets’ new grant program will support the poets who head arts initiatives for cities, tribes and states across the country.
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‘Looking For Lorraine’ Explores The Life Of The Author Of ‘A Raisin In The Sun’ | WBEZ 91.5 Chicago
By the time Lorraine Hansberry died in 1965 at just 34 years old, she had already made her mark in literary history.
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24 Of The Most Thought-Provoking Pieces Of Writing By People Of Color In 2017 | Huffington Post
Read these before the year is over.
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Take a Look at All This Black Genius the MacArthur Foundation Has Recognized | The Root
The best way to start any day is with some black excellence, and today that cup runneth the hell over. The list of MacArthur fellows is out, and this year, six of the recipients are black.
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‘The Black Writing Community Is Very Small’ | The Atlantic
The writer Ashley C. Ford and her mentor, Roxane Gay, discuss the professional advice they’ve gotten and how to cope with criticism.
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I Went To The First Well-Read Black Girl Festival and Remembered I Was Born to Write—And Read | OkayAfrica
It took several years for me to call myself a writer, and two decades to actually believe it.
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The Butler Effect: How Octavia Butler Changed My Life | OkayAfrice
After Wild Seed, I devoured every Octavia E. Butler book our library had – perhaps why it didn’t strongly register that so few of the books I read for school were about black people.
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Peruse a Pop-Up Library of Books by Black Women Authors in Bushwick – Hyperallergic
On April 2, exchange and peruse books by black women authors at OlaRonke Akinmowo’s Free Black Women’s Library at NURTUREart.
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