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She is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Iowa Writers Workshop.
She was a WPR Fellow at Harvard University from 2018 to 2019.
I was like, Are you kidding me?
Why is it that the canon does not integrate these important voices that are on the pulse of time?
A limited understanding of Black poets persists today.
Tracie Morris, PhD, MFA, is a poet, artist, and researcher. She is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. In 2018 she was designated a Master Artist by the Atlantic Center for the Arts and was Visiting Writer at the Vermont Studio Center. She was a WPR Fellow at Harvard University from 2018 to 2019.
Many people know of Langston Hughes and maybeAudre Lourde.
But theres a gap between them.
When Black poets get recognition, its primarily when they speak about the Black experience, says Dr. Morris.
Its very exoticizing and limiting, says Dr. Morris.
Its damaging because it reduces us as people.
Black people have opinions on everythingjust go to a Black barbecue.
I dont think that thats helpful.
There are many notable Black poetsof the present and the pastwho dont receive the widespread recognition they deserve.
So many that asking Dr. Morris to choose 10 was a very painful process, she tells me.
Tracie Morris, PhD, MFA, is a poet, artist, and researcher. She is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. In 2018 she was designated a Master Artist by the Atlantic Center for the Arts and was Visiting Writer at the Vermont Studio Center. She was a WPR Fellow at Harvard University from 2018 to 2019.
(It has to be on everybodys bookshelf, its just fantastic, she says.)
Dr. Morris herself is an extremely distinguished poet, performance artist, and researcher.
Shes performed, researched, and presented work in more than 30 countries.
Morris highlights one of Sundiatas poems, Blink Your Eyes.
Hes the one we all look up to.
Mackey is a poet, novelist, editor, and critic whoteaches creative writing at Duke University.
Many of his poems arealso available to read online.
Lucille Cliftonwas discovered by Langston Hughes.
Shes justshes Lucille Clifton.
you could read some of her many poemshere.
it’s possible for you to read some of their workhere.
Khadijah Queen, PhD, is a fantastic poet and playwright, says Dr. Morris.
Her sixth book,Anodyne($16), is set to be released in August 2020.
Anais Duplan, MFA, a trans* poet, curator, and artist.
It earned the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry.
Kam Hilliard, MFA,is one of Morris former students at the Iowa Writers Workshop.
Their work is really really very intense, very energetic, and hard to put down.
you’re able to read some of their workhere.
Yona Harveyis a poet and an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Her first poetry collection,Hemming the Water($16), received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
Asiya Wadudis a poet and a teacher at Saint Anns School in Brooklyn.
She also authoredSyncope($17) in 2019.
Wadud leads an English conversation group for new immigrants at the Brooklyn Public Library.
it’s possible for you to read more of her workhere.
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