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Umbra Poets Workshop collection
- Title
- Umbra Poets Workshop collection, 1978-2006 (bulk 1978-1986).
- Author
- Umbra Poets Workshop.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 538 box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Additional Authors
- Thomas, Lorenzo, 1944-2005.
- Description
- .4 lin. ft. (1 archival box)
- Summary
- The Umbra Poets Workshop collection consists of oral history interviews with fourteen of the poets, conducted by Michel Oren with one exception, Amiri Baraka, who was interviewed by fellow Umbra member, Lorenzo Thomas, along with letters relating to the formation of Umbra and Calvin Hernton's activities. Lorenzo Thomas's manuscript, "Annotated Bibliography of the Umbra Workshop 1962-1982", is included.
- Subjects
- Dent, Thomas C
- Berger, Art
- Johnson, Joe Donald
- Interviews
- African American authors > Interviews
- Touré, Askia M
- Poets, American > 20th century > Interviews
- Walcott, Brenda
- African American poets > Interviews
- Thomas, Lorenzo, 1944-2005
- American literature > African American authors
- American poetry > African American authors
- African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Poindexter, Jane
- Society of Umbra
- Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014
- Poets, Black > 20th century > Interviews
- Hernton, Calvin C
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Access (note)
- Transcripts and interviews with Ishmael Reed and David Henderson are closed.
- Source (note)
- Michel Oren
- Biography (note)
- The Umbra Poets Workshop was a group of young African American writers who met on New York City's Lower East Side from 1962 to 1965 to conduct readings and discuss writing and politics. Early members of the group included Thomas C. Dent, Calvin Hernton, Ishmael Reed, David Henderson, Joe Johnson, and Askia M. Toure (then Rolland Snellings.) They founded "Umbra", a literary magazine, in 1963. The group, known for the intensity of its readings of "street poetry," and influenced by Black nationalist ideas and the African oral tradition, was among the forerunners of the Black Arts movement.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 538
- OCLC
- 173303903
- Author
- Umbra Poets Workshop.
- Title
- Umbra Poets Workshop collection, 1978-2006 (bulk 1978-1986).
- Access
- Transcripts and interviews with Ishmael Reed and David Henderson are closed.
- Biography
- The Umbra Poets Workshop was a group of young African American writers who met on New York City's Lower East Side from 1962 to 1965 to conduct readings and discuss writing and politics. Early members of the group included Thomas C. Dent, Calvin Hernton, Ishmael Reed, David Henderson, Joe Johnson, and Askia M. Toure (then Rolland Snellings.) They founded "Umbra", a literary magazine, in 1963. The group, known for the intensity of its readings of "street poetry," and influenced by Black nationalist ideas and the African oral tradition, was among the forerunners of the Black Arts movement.
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- Added Author
- Thomas, Lorenzo, 1944-2005.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 538