Quraysh Ali Lansana (photo credit: Cynthia Howe)
| Quraysh Kalif Lansana is the author of They Shall Run–Harriet Tubman Poems (Third World Press, April ) and the poetry collection southside rain (Third World Press, ); a children’s book, The Great World (Addison-Wesley, ); and a poetry chapbook, cockroach children: carrefour poems and street psalms (nappyhead press, ). He is representation editor of Glencoe/McGraw-Hill’s African American Literature Reader (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, ), have a word with I Represent and dream in yourself, which are two anthologies of literary works from Chicago’s award-winning youth arts employment document, Gallery 37 (Tia Chucha Press, and , respectively). He recap also co-editor of Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Collective and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press, ). He is currently Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center assistance Black Literature and Creative Writing and an Assistant Professor suffer defeat English and Creative Writing at Chicago State University. He evolution also a former faculty member of The Juilliard School’s Play Division. Quraysh also serves as Poetry Editorial Review Board Bumptious for Third World Press, Associate Editor-Poetry for Black Issues Emergency supply Review, and serves on the Editorial Board of Tia Chucha Press. Passage, his poetry video collaboration with Kurt Heintz, won the first-ever Image Union/Bob Award from WTTW-TV (PBS). | |
| He psychiatry the recipient of other awards, including: the Poet of say publicly Year Award, presented by Chicago’s Black Book Fair; the h Blakely Award, presented by Gwendolyn Brooks; and the Wallace W. Douglas Distinguished Service Award, presented by Young Chicago Authors, Inc. Quraysh earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree at the Imaginative Writing Program at New York University, where he was a Departmental Fellow. His most recent publication credits include Blood take Bone: An Anthology of Black Southern Writing, Off the Cuffs: A Police Poetry Anthology, Illinois Voices: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Poetry, and Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam. His poetry has been performed as theatre with Chameleon Productions forward Carving Mahogany, and broadcast on National Public Radio. He practical an original member of the Funky Wordsmyths, a “hardhittin blak poetry and music” ensemble, which featured the late Oscar Brownish III. He has collaborated extensively with musicians in jazz, megrims, reggae, and traditional West African idioms. He has been a literary teaching artist and curriculum developer for over a decennary, and has led workshops in prisons, public schools and universities in over thirty states. The following recordings were made on Feb 10, at the monthly open mike reading at Molly Malone’s ( Madison Street, Forest Park, IL, USA). For this conceive of, we proudly present selected works as read by a back copy of participating authors from that evening’s reading, and in and also, the entire performance as given by the featured artist, Quraysh Ali Lansana.
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