Haki R. Madhubuti remembers Maya Angelou (ChicagoTribune - May 28, 2014) #RockThoseReads/#Harlem/#HarlemRenaissance, Harlem Writers Guild EXCERPT: Fast forward to 1959 when she moved to New York at the encouragement of the great fiction writer John O. Killens (who would later be a strong influence in my own work). During this period Killens and writers such as Richard Wright, Chester Hines and Ralph Ellison were making their mark on Western literature. Poets Langston Hughes, Melvin B. Tolson, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker and Gwendolyn Brooks were not far behind. Zora Neale Hurston was making her mark, and a young James Baldwin was tearing up the pages of national journals. Maya entered this company of writers and fell into the warm arms of the Harlem Writers Guild. There she met many of the writers who influenced me and thousands of others: Paule Marshall, Rosa Guy, Julian Mayfield and the historian John Henrik Clarke.
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 01:25:05 +0000
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