Contributors
- Contributors
Gerald Barrax was Professor of English, Poet-in-Residence, and Editor of Obsidian at North Carolina State University at Raleigh. He is author of four volumes of poems, Another Kind of Rain, An Audience of One, The Deaths of Animals and Lesser Gods, and Leaning Against the Sun. In July, 1997, From a Person Sitting in Darkness: Selected and New Poems, his fifth volume, was published by the Louisiana State University Press. He has recently retired to West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Clotaire Bazile is an Oungan, a Vodou priest who practices in Miami and Port-au-Prince, where he maintains temples. He is also a Vodou flagmaker. His work has been exhibited in various cities and printed in numerous periodicals and catalogues.
Percival Everett is a professor at the University of California, Riverside, where he was the Chairman of the Department of Creative Writing. An associate editor of Callaloo, he is author of several books of fiction, including Big Picture, Watershed, God’s Country, Zulus, Cutting Lisa, The One That Got Away, and Walk Me the Distance.
Leon Forrest is a professor of English and African American studies at Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1973. He is author of four novels, There Is a Tree More Ancient Than Eden, The Bloodworth Orphans, Two Wings to Veil My Face, and Divine Days. John G. Cawelti edited a special section on Leon Forrest in Callaloo, Vol. 16, No. 2. Forrest lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Michael S. Harper is author of several volumes of poems, including Images of Kin and Healing Song for the Inner Ear. He is I.J. Kapstein Professor of English at Brown University, where he teaches courses in creative writing and literature.
Lionel Hogu teaches in the Bilingual Program in the Boston Public Schools. He is the coordinator of the Haitian Creole Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he received a masters degree. He has published in a variety of journals, including L’Educateur/Edikatè and the Journal of Haitian Studies. He helped to translate the interview with Anna Wexler and Clotaire Bazile that appears in this issue.
Jennifer Jordan is an associate professor of English at Howard University, where she was a student of Arthur P. Davis when she studied for the BA and MA degrees. As his graduate assistant, she did much of the biographical and bibliographical research for Arthur P. Davis’s Cavalcade: Negro American Writing from 1760 to the Present (1971). Her commemorative essay, “An Apple for Arthur P.,” will be published in Men We Cherish (Anchor Books), edited by Brooke Stephens.
Keneth Kinnamon is Ethel Pumphrey Stephens Professor of English at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He is author of The Emergence of Richard Wright: A Study in Literature and Society and A Richard Wright Bibliography: Fifty Years of Criticism and Commentary, 1933–1982. He has edited James Baldwin: A Collection of Critical Essays, New Essays on Native Son, and a number of other books. He has served as the Chairman of Departments of English at the University of Arkansas and at the University of Illinois (Urbana).
Juan Logan, a native of Nashville, has studied at Howard University, Clark College, and the Maryland Institute, College of Art. His painting and sculpture have been displayed in one-man and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in Lome, Togo, and Pretoria, South Africa, as well as in numerous cities throughout the United States, including Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Washington, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. He is a resident of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Michael Mcfee, an assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), is author of five collections of poems: Colander, To See, Sad Girl Sitting on a Running Board, Vanishing Acts, and Plain Air. He is the editor of The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets.
Albert Murray is author of nine books of prose fiction and nonfiction prose, including Train Whistle Guitar, The Spyglass Tree, The Seven League Books, Stomping the Blues, The Omni-Americans, The Blue Devils of Nada, and South to a Very Old Place. He lives in New York City.
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