Furious flower III : seeding the future of African American poetry. Cultivating form, creating the black aesthetic / Judith McCray, producer ; John L. Hodges, Jr., director.

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 2015.

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Furious Flower III: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2015) offers the unprecedented opportunity to watch thirty-two of today's leading African American poets reading from their work and discussing the critical issues shaping this vibrant poetic tradition. Its four video volumes compile close to five hours of highlights from the landmark national poetry summit sponsored once a decade by the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University, the country's only academic venue devoted to the study of African American poetry. Together with Furious Flower I (1998) and II (2005) - now newly available - this third title constitutes a video anthology of some of the most exciting poetry and perceptive critical insights of the past decade. Any teacher, poet, student or reader who has followed the current flowering of African American verse would want to have attended this seminal event - and now on video they can. The seven poets in this opening volume discuss and demonstrate the formal and stylistic characteristics of an evolving Black aesthetic, both in their own poetry and their peers'. It features a special panel on the teaching of African American poetry and mentoring younger poets, as well as Rita Dove's keynote address. With Rita Dove, Elizabeth Alexander, Patricia Smith, A. Van Jordan, Aracelis Girmay, Marilyn Nelson, and Toi Derricotte.

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November 15, 2019