Black History Month – Goldtrap Lecture – The Poet as Prophet and Oracle
Ishmael Reed
Sunday, 15 Feb 2004 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Ishmael Reed is the author of more than twenty books--novels, essays, plays, and poetry--that have been translated into seven languages. He has also edited two major anthologies including From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and his novels Mumbo Jumbo and The Last Days of Louisiana Red were nominated for the National Book Award, He taught at Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth, and for 20 years has been on the faculty at University of California, Berkeley.
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