Toni Asante Lightfoot poetry ephemera collection, 1991-2004.

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Toni Asante Lightfoot poetry ephemera collection, 1991-2004.

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This collection contains newspaper articles, magazine articles, poetry, fliers, letters, playbills, programs, and photographs related to several poetry reading groups and other poetry related activities within Washington, D.C. Two prominent groups are It's Your Mug and Modern Urban Griots. It's Your Mug was a poetry reading series. The Modern Urban Griots described itself as ". . . a family of poets who came to know each other at It's Your Mug, a coffee house in the historic Georgetown Section of Washington, D.C. The seven members came together in the name of poetry and mutual love for the art and its performance. They are: Jane Alberdeston, Holly Bass, Danny Boylen II, Twain Dooley, Brandon D. Johnson, Toni Asante Lightfoot, and Lori Tsang." Collection contains an article about poet Gwendolyn Brooks.

0.25 linear feet.

George Washington University

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Modern Urban Griots.

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Bass, Holly

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Holly Bass has lived in the Washington, D.C. area since 1994. She has performed at numerous universities and performance spaces along the eastern corridor including St. Mark's Poetry Project, the Apollo Theatre, and the Nuyorcian Poet's Cafe. She performed as a member of the Modern Urban Griots Collective, a poetry performance troupe, and the SHE Company, an international collective of women artists. She has performed both dance and poetry at numerous readings and stage venues in Washington, D.C...

Lightfoot, Toni Asante

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Toni Asante Lightfoot is a graduate of Cave Canem African American Writer's Workshop and a teacher of writing workshops. She is co-founder of the poetry collective the Modern Urban Griots and is a leader in the national arts organization, Blackout Arts Collective. Ms. Lightfoot was President of the African American Writers Guild, founded by Marita Golden. In November 2002 she became the Business and Outreach Manager Guild Complex in Chicago. She has authored several books including two collectio...

Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000

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African American poet and novelist, who was an important figure in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. From the description of Of Robert Frost / Gwendolyn Brooks. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79334638 Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas, on June 17, 1917 and moved shortly after her birth to Chicago's South Side, where she lived until her death. She authored more than twenty books of poetry, beginning with A Street in Bronzeville (1945), follow...