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Faculty 2005
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Martin Espada (Poetry)Martin Espada is a nationally renowned poet. Hailed by some critics as "the Latino poet of his generation," Espada has won numerous awards for his poetry, including the Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award, The Pen/Revson Fellowship, the Pateson Poetry Prize, an American Book Award for Imagine the Angels of Bread , which also was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award. He is a Professor in the Department of English at UMASS , Amherst, where he teaches creative writing, Latino poetry, the literature of the Spanish Civil War and the work of Pablo Neruda. For more information on Martin Espada, see his website www.martinespada.net |
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Sandra Jackson-Opoku (Fiction)An award-winning poet, fiction writer, scriptwriter, and journalist, Jackson-Opoku has written five books, including the critically acclaimed novel, The River Where Blood is Born , which won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award for Fiction in 1998.Her other awards, for fiction and non-fiction, include the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines-General Electric Fiction Award for Younger Writers, and a Ragdale Foundation U.S.-Africa Writers Fellowship. A world traveler, Ms. Jackson-Opoku has lived in parts of West Africa and lived in Nigeria for many years. For more information on Sandra Jackson-Opoku, see the following website: www.voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/authors/JacksonOpokusandra.htm |
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Patrice GainesPatric Gaines is the author of two books, Laughing in The Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color: A Journey from Prison to Power , and Moments of Grace, Meeting the Challenge to Change . She worked for several newspapers during her career as a fulltime reporter, spending the last 16 years as a reporter for Washington Post. While at the Post, she won awards for journalism and for her contributions to the community. She has been a guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show and was featured on a segment of Dateline . Her articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Essence Magazine . She has been a commentator on National Public Radio and Pacifica Radio. Today, Gaines is a freelance journalist, writing teacher and motivational speaker. |
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Center for Black Literature
Dr. Brenda M. Greene
Medgar Evers College, CUNY
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Plattsburgh State
Jose L. Torres-Padilla
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Plattsburgh, N.Y. 12901
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