Contributors
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T. J Anderson, composer, received the Ph. D. degree from the University of Iowa in 1958, and, in 2002, an honorary doctorate in music from Northwestern University in Evanston. Before retiring from teaching, he served as professor and artist-in-residence at a number of universities, including Tufts, Ohio State, Northwestern, and Michigan. He lives in Chapel Hill, NC.
William Banfield has published two books, Musical Landscapes in Color: Conversations with Black American Composers and Black Notes: Essays of a Musician Writing in a Post-Album Age. He was recently appointed Consulting Editor for African American Cultural Studies at Scarecrow Press and Professor of Africana Studies/Music/Society at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Alexander L. Blackburn is author of a number of books, including Suddenly a Mortal Splendor, The Myth of the Picaro, and Meeting the Professor. He is editor of The Interior Country: Stories of the Modern West and co-editor (with C. Kenneth Pellow) of Higher Elevations: Stories from the West, a Writers Forum Anthology. This founding Editor-in-Chief of Writers' Forum (1974–1995) lives in Colorado.
Rachel Bliss has exhibited her art in such galleries and museums as The Philadelphia Art Museum, The Society of Illustration Museum in New York, the Alternative Museum in New York, and Coombs Contemporary Gallery in London, U. K. For her art, she has received commissions from such publications as Penguin Books, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, New York Times, and Time Magazine. She lives in Philadelphia and is represented by Snyderman Gallery in Philadelphia.
Keith Cartwright, who teaches African Diaspora literatures and culture in the Department of English at the University of North Florida, is author of Reading Africa into American Literature. He has also published critical articles in such journals as Mississippi Quarterly and Southern Quarterly Review.
Michael Collins, is an assistant professor of English at Texas A&M University, College Station. He is also an Associate Editor of Callaloo. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2003 and elsewhere.
Goutam Datta, a native of India, is a poet and playwright. He is co-editor of Ami amar miritur por sadhinota chai na [I Do Not Want My Freedom When I Am Dead], the first African American poetry anthology published in Bengali. He lives in New Jersey, where he works as a chemical engineer.
Anthony Davis is a jazz pianist ad composer. He has received commissions from the New York City Opera, the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the American Theater Festival, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. His compositions include Hemispheres (a collaboration with choreographer Molissa Fenley), Jacob's Ladder, and Under the Double Moon. He has also composed music for chamber ensembles, as well as for such productions as Tony Kushner's Angels in America and Part Two, Perestroika, both of which won Tony Awards. [End Page 887]
Toi Derricotte has published a memoir, The Black Notebooks, and four books of poems, The Empress of Death, Natural Birth, Captivity, and Tender, winner of the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize. She is professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and co-founder of Cave Canem, a retreat for African American poets.
Ram Devineni is a film-maker and the publisher of Rattapallax Press. His films have been shown at the Cairo International Film Festival, San Jose Film Festival, and Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema.
Michael Dowdy is a candidate for the Ph.D. in English at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Sam Feinstein (1915–2003) was a painter, teacher, and film-maker, who emigrated to the United States in 1921 and graduated from the Philadelphia Museum College of Art in 1936. From 1953 until 2003 until 2003, he directed his private painting workshops in New York City, Philadelphia, Princeton, and Cape Cod, as well as in locations in Michigan and Canada.
Sascha Feinstein won the 1990 Hayden Carruth Award for Misterioso, a poetry collection published by Copper Canyon Press in 2000. He is author of Jazz Poetry: from the 1920s to the Present and co-editor (with Yusef Komunyakaa) of The Jazz Poetry Anthology and its companion, The Second Set. His poems and essays have appeared in a number of...
