Archive - History of Black Writing Blog
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Black Literary History Making
The HBW Blog published regularly for ten years from 2011-2021 at the URL https://projecthbw.ku.edu. During that time, it served as a major forum for the exchange of information and ideas, as well as a robust network for scholars, teachers, and students from different disciplines around the world.
Guest contributors include leading scholars and writers, but most of the posts were conceived of, researched, and written by HBW's staff of undergraduate and graduate students. Its content consists of feature editorials, book reviews, memorials, and coverage of HBW programming. Altogether, 95 writers contributed more than 750 posts.
The HBW Blog Archive is searchable by topic, month and year, and contributor name.
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| Counterpublics, Public Intellectuals, and Exodusters: An Interview with Frank Farmer (Part II) Peace: The word or the phrase “public intellectual” comes up a lot, and I see that phrase when I read in rhetoric and composition... | |
| Counterpublics, Public Intellectuals, and Exodusters: An Interview with Frank Farmer (Part I) We are pleased to present this two-part interview with Frank Farmer, a leading figure in Composition Studies and Rhetoric who recently retired from KU after joining the English faculty in 2000... | |
| Black Poetry: Now and in the Future In the tradition of black poetry and writing conferences, such as the 1966 Black Writers Conference at Fisk, the 2019 Black Poetry: A Conference served as a distinct space through which we honored the history and future of black poetry. Black Poetry was curated by Tracy K. Smith, Joshua Kotin, and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko... | |
| In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens I arrived in Eatonville, Florida, in December 2018 to work as the first graduate intern for the 30th annual ZORA! Festival of the Arts and Humanities... | |
| Women’s History Month: Naomi Long Madgett Naomi Long Madgett, Detroit Poet Laureate and founder of the Detroit-based Lotus Press, was born into the Harlem Renaissance in 1923, the same year that Jean Toomer’s genre-defying novel Cane was published... | |
| “No Saint” Call Walter Mosley what you may: novelist, playwright, artist, public speaker. Just don’t call him a saint... | |
| 'If You Trusted Love This Far, Trust It All The Way' “If you trusted love this far, trust it all the way.”.. | |
| Black Speculative Fiction On the Rise In an age where Luke Cage can break Netflix, FIYAH literary magazine can win a World Fantasy Award, and speculative fiction legends Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes can give keynote speeches at the National Black Book Festival, it is clear that things are changing for creators of Black Speculative Fiction... | |
| Q&A: With Nikita Haynie Nikita Haynie describes herself as a Christian, an advisor to students, and writer who published her first novel “Phases” last year... | |
| Four Ways to Commemorate Dr. King on MLK Day Martin Luther King Jr. Day is always celebrated on the third Monday in January across the United States to recognize his birthday, which is on Jan. 15... |