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Podcast: On the Media (LS 74 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)
Episode: Reimagining History
Pub date: 2018-10-10
Last week, the MacArthur Foundation awarded genius grants to 25 creatives in art, literature, science and music. John Keene, a writer of poetry, fiction and cultural criticism, was one of them. He was recognized for his innovative use of language and form, and the way his work “exposes the social structures that confine, enslave, or destroy” people of color and queer people. Keene spoke to Brooke back in 2015 about his story collection, Counternarratives, which centers the voices of the marginalized in both imagined and reimagined historical moments.
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Podcast: Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)
Episode: WMC Live #98: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Salamishah Tillet, Kristie Dotson, Joanne N. Smith, and Danielle E. Gary; Maya Nussbaum and Taysha Clark. (Original Airdate 10/4/2014)
Pub date: 2014-10-04
Robin on ISIL's execution of Samira Salih Ali al-Nuaimi. Then, for the Day of the Girlchild: a roundtable of African American feminists—Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Salamishah Tillet, Kristie Dotson, Joanne N. Smith, and Danielle E. Gary—on what Obama's "My Brother's Keeper" initiative does to girls. Plus, Maya Nussbaum, the founder of Girls Write Now, and Taysha Clark, one of its stellar "graduates."
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Podcast: Ratchet & Respectable (LS 65 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)
Episode: "To More Light Skinned Kids!" (and Other Problematic Ish)
Pub date: 2019-02-26
Demetria has a blackity black-black discussion with Rutgers Professor Melissa Valle in a meandering conversation about Blackness that includes black-fishing in pop culture (that means you Ariana Grande),the Frankenstein-ing of of black beauty and toasts to light-skin kids.
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Podcast: Ufahamu Africa (LS 35 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: Ep58. A conversation with Wendell Marsh on the history (and modernity) of Islam and the African world
Pub date: 2019-02-23
This week's conversation is with Wendell Marsh (@theafrabian), an Assistant Professor of African American and African Studies at Rutgers University-Newark and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Buffet Institute for Global Studies at Northwestern University. He conducts research and teaches on the encounter of Islam and the African world as mediated in Arabic and vernacular texts. His segment begins at 12:21. … More Ep58. A conversation with Wendell Marsh on the history (and modernity) of Islam and the African world
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Podcast: Poem Talk (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)
Episode: Constrained to Honor: A Discussion of Claude McKay's "If We Must Die"
Pub date: 2013-10-08
Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Salamishah Tillet, Herman Beavers, and Kathy Lou Schultz.
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Podcast: Poetry Lectures (LS 36 · TOP 3% what is this?)
Episode: Dark Room Collective
Pub date: 2012-10-19
A reunion of the Dark Room Collective at the Poetry Foundation in April 2012. This reading features Nehassaiu deGannes, John Keene, Kevin Young, Sharan Strange, Major Jackson, Thomas Sayers Ellis, and Natasha Trethewey.
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Podcast: Contemporary Black Canvas (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)
Episode: EP 07 Poet and Novelist John Keene
Pub date: 2017-01-06
In this week’s episode, I am delighted to bring you my lively and engaging interview with the poet and novelist, John Keene. In this wide-ranging conversation we discuss his early artistic pursuits, encouraged by his parents, towards drawing, visual art, and writing, the writers who mentored him, and his long-standing fascination with African diasporic history. Moreover, he gives us a particularly in-depth look into his inspirations, experiences, and craftsmanship as a novelist and poet who is engaged with experimental forms. John earned his B.A. at Harvard University and an MFA from New York University. As a long-time member the Dark Room Writers Collective, he cherishes the “electric atmosphere” and the connections made with the individuals of this group to this day. John Keene’s work includes his poetry book Seismosis, with drawings by Christopher Stackhouse, and his experimental novels Annotations and Counternarratives. John Keene, a professor at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ, and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the New York Times Foundation, Yaddo, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. You can find is work through major booksellers and you can find him blogging on-line: at http://jstheater.blogspot.com/.
Noteworthy Poets and Authors from the Past and Present
Ishmael Reed
Allen Ginsberg
Terry McMillan
Alice Walker
Clarence Major
Samuel R. Delaney
Delores Kendrick
Elizabeth Alexander
Martin Espada
Derek Walcott
John Edgar Wideman
Kevin Powell
Marilyn Hacker
Mae Henderson
Kenzaburo Oe
Yasunari Kawabata
Paule Marshall
Richard Bruce Nugent
Langston Hughes
Inspired by
Lucy Terry Prince
Phillis Wheatley
Paule Marshall
Ishmael Reed
Kamau Brathwaite
Michael S. Harper
Rita Dove
Jay Wright
Theodore Wilson Harris
Amiri Baraka
Sonia Sanchez
Russell Atkins
Norman Pritchard
Gwendolyn Brooks
Wole Soyinka
Pay It Forward
Kerry James Marshall: Mastery
Resource you rely on
New York Public Library
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Podcast: WBGO Journal Podcast
Episode: The 39th Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series
Pub date: 2019-02-08
The new Associate Director of the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience and one of the organizers of the upcoming MTW is Salamishah Tillet. Tillet sat down recently with WBGO's News Director Doug Doyle to talk about this year's MTW's theme: The Erotic as Power: Sexuality and the Black Experience . The event begins at 9:30am on Saturday, February 16th at the Paul Robeson Campus Center at Rutgers University-Newark. The annual Black History Month conference will bring to Newark renowned scholars and performers whose pioneering and award-winning work has powerfully shaped America’s understanding of sexuality’s history and its role in contemporary life. The first is E. Patrick Johnson, a scholar/artist who has published and performed widely on race, gender, and sexuality. Following a performance by world renowned violinist, Dr. Melanie Hill, Mr. Johnson will open the MTW conference with an innovative lecture/performance. The day’s other speakers and
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