Historical Overviews of The Black Arts Movement BAM

Posted on April 25, 2012April 25, 2012 by october

Kaluma ya Salaam Both inherently and overtly political in content, the Black Arts movement was the only American literary movement to advance “social engagement” as a sine qua non of its aesthetic. The movement broke from the immediate past of protest and petition (civil rights) literature and dashed forward toward an alternative that initially seemed …

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Dana Crum – poet, writer, english-language expert

Posted on April 25, 2012April 25, 2012 by october

Dana Crum’s Poems Appear in The Innisfree Poetry Journal _The Innisfree Poetry Journal recently published two of Dana Crum’s poems: “The Gods of Darfur” and “Abandoned.” The former examines the genocide in Darfur and the lack of action that allows such atrocities to go unchecked. In the latter, Crum ponders the question of God’s existence. …

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