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36 relations: Academy of American Poets, African Americans, Albuquerque, New Mexico, American Book Awards, American poetry, Augustine of Hippo, Before Columbus Foundation, Bollingen Prize, Bradford, Vermont, Dogon languages, Dogon people, English language, Guyana, Harold Bloom, Henry Dumas, Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award, List of essayists, MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Foundation, Mexican Americans, Playwright, Poet, Robert B. Stepto, Robert Hayden, Rutgers University, Spanish language, T. S. Eliot, Talladega College, Texas Southern University, Tougaloo College, United Kingdom, United States, University of California, Berkeley, University of Dundee, Wilson Harris, Yale University.
Academy of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque (Beeʼeldííl Dahsinil; Arawageeki; Vakêêke; Gołgéeki) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
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American Book Awards
The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement".
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American poetry
American poetry, the poetry of the United States, arose first as efforts by colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the thirteen colonies (although before this unification, a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry existed among Native American societies).
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Augustine of Hippo
Saint Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.
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Before Columbus Foundation
The Before Columbus Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1976 by Ishmael Reed, "dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary American multicultural literature".
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Bollingen Prize
The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.
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Bradford, Vermont
Bradford is a town in Orange County, Vermont, United States.
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Dogon languages
The Dogon languages are a small, close-knit language family spoken by the Dogon people of Mali, which is generally believed to belong to the larger Niger–Congo family.
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Dogon people
The Dogon are an ethnic group living in the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa, south of the Niger bend, near the city of Bandiagara, in the Mopti region.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Guyana
Guyana (pronounced or), officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a sovereign state on the northern mainland of South America.
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Harold Bloom
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.
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Henry Dumas
Henry Dumas (July 20, 1934 – May 23, 1968) was an African-American writer and poet.
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Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award
The Laurence L. & Thomas Winship/PEN New England Award (previously L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award) is awarded annually by PEN New England to honor a New England author or book with a New England setting or subject.
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List of essayists
This is a list of essayists—people notable for their essay-writing.
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MacArthur Fellows Program
The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 individuals, working in any field, who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States.
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MacArthur Foundation
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is the 12th-largest private foundation in the United States.
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Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans (mexicoamericanos or estadounidenses de origen mexicano) are Americans of full or partial Mexican descent.
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Playwright
A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.
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Poet
A poet is a person who creates poetry.
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Robert B. Stepto
Robert B. Stepto is a literary theorist and professor of African American studies, English and American Studies at Yale University.
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Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden (4 August 1913 – 25 February 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator.
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Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, commonly referred to as Rutgers University, Rutgers, or RU, is an American public research university and is the largest institution of higher education in New Jersey.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".
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Talladega College
Talladega College, located in Talladega, Alabama, is a private, liberal arts college.
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Texas Southern University
Texas Southern University (shortened to Texas Southern or simply TSU) is a public historically black university (HBCU) located in Houston, in the U.S. state of Texas, accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
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Tougaloo College
Tougaloo College is a private, co-educational, historically black, liberal arts institution of higher education founded in 1869, in Madison County, north of Jackson, Mississippi, United States.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.
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University of Dundee
The University of Dundee (abbreviated as Dund. for post-nominals) is a public research university based in the city and royal burgh of Dundee on the east coast of the central Lowlands of Scotland.
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Wilson Harris
Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (24 March 1921 – 8 March 2018) was a Guyanese writer.
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Yale University
Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wright_(poet)
