Loyola Phoenix: Third poetry festival kicks off Thursday
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Loyola Phoenix: Third poetry festival kicks off Thursday
Description
This article by Ken Traisman discusses the Third Annual Festival of Chicago Poets to be held on Thursday, March 27, 1980 at the Loyola Lake Shore Campus by the English Department. The article gives the schedule of readings and receptions, along with several excerpts of poems and brief biographies of the readers. In addition to an open reading, attendees wolud hear from Galway Kinnell, Dennis Brutus, Haki Madhabuti (Don L. Lee) and Martha Friedberg, along with others unnamed.
The article mentions that Dennis Brutus was exiled from South Africa for his vehement criticism of racism. Madhabuti, who began writing in the 1960s, felt that black people should write poetry specifically about the black experience, drawing upon "street language," jazz, and black-created art. "The Chicago-based Los Otros Poetry Collective is an uninhibited predominantly young group. The poets are mostly blacks and Hispanics who often write about experiences in the city."
The article mentions that Dennis Brutus was exiled from South Africa for his vehement criticism of racism. Madhabuti, who began writing in the 1960s, felt that black people should write poetry specifically about the black experience, drawing upon "street language," jazz, and black-created art. "The Chicago-based Los Otros Poetry Collective is an uninhibited predominantly young group. The poets are mostly blacks and Hispanics who often write about experiences in the city."
Date, date span, or circa acceptable
1980-03-21
File name
Loyola Phoenix, 1980-03-21, page 13.
Sources archive, University Archives and Special Collections or Women and Leadership Archives
University Archives and Special Collections
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University Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Phoenix, 1980-03-21, page 13.
Subject
Loyola University Chicago
Poetry
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Contact the Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections, archive@luc.edu, for permission to copy or publish.
