The Loyolan: Third Annual Poetry Festival (collage)
Item
Title
The Loyolan: Third Annual Poetry Festival (collage)
Description
A collage of two photos taken on March 27, 1980 of the Loyola English Department's Third Annual Festival of Chicago Poets. The left photo depicts attendees talking to each other, while the right photo is of Dennis Brutus, a celebrated South African poet, as he speaks at a podium. Brutus was in exile from the apartheid government of South Africa, and was best-known for his efforts as co-founder of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee (SANROC) to keep South Africa from being able to enter the 1968 Olympics due to their racist policies. Brutus was one of several well-known poets to attend the festival, along with an open mic session and the "Los Otros" youth poetry collective, which featured mostly Black and Hispanic youth poets from Chicago who wrote about experiences living in the city.
Date, date span, or circa acceptable
1980
File name
The Loyolan Yearbook 1980, page 137
Sources archive, University Archives and Special Collections or Women and Leadership Archives
University Archives and Special Collections
Subject
Loyola University Chicago
Poetry
Rights
Contact the Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections, archive@luc.edu, for permission to copy or publish.
