Grace Cavalieri Releases New Podcast with Jeffrey Lamar Coleman
Coleman is a professor of English at St. Mary's College of Maryland. He is the editor of Words of Protest, Words of Freedom: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement and Era (Duke University Press) and author of Spirits Distilled: Poems (Red Hen Press).
Grace Cavalieri's new series on the poets of Maryland, for which she was recently funded by Maryland Humanities, is off to a strong and engaging start. This week's guest, professor of English, Jeffrey Lamar Coleman, is the editor of Words of Protest, Words of Freedom: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement and Era and an accomplished poet in his own regard (his latest collection Spirits Distilled: Poems, is available from Red Hen Press).
In this podcast, Coleman discusses and reads many poems from his own work and from black poets of the civil rights era. Grace and Coleman also talk about the erasure of black voices from the "classic rock" canon, especially the multi-talented Prince. Coleman impresses with his unique cadence, his breadth of historical knowledge, and his passion for social justice.
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Grace Cavalieri's Other Voices, Other Lives includes transcripts from some of her best interviews of US Poets Laureate on "The Poet and The Poem"?
Reuben Jackson and Rose Solari to Read at the American Poetry Museum
Reuben Jackson and Rose Solari will be reading together at the American Poetry Museum on Dec 14th. But their history of reading together doesn’t start there.
Incoming: Early 2020 will be the first ASP Open Submission Period
This new year, we want your unpublished poetry and novel manuscripts!
A Writer’s Legacy: The Mission Behind the Peabody Reader and The Legacy Series
The small press world can be incredibly difficult for the lifelong writer. To publish your works and to watch them fall into “out of print” status due to the vagaries of an industry is not fair to the author nor their art. That is why ASP is rethinking how to publish writers who’ve established themselves in the independent community.