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The Dark Room Where Contemporary African-American Poetry Was Incubated

WORDS Posted: May 27, 2014 11:34 am

“Distressed that they had never met an African-American literary lion of [James] Baldwin’s stature, the poets, Thomas Sayers Ellis and Sharan Strange, hatched a plan: They would bring young black writers and artists together to read their work aloud, to bond with mentors and to foster the sort of comradeship that had nurtured many a cultural movement.”

WORDS Published: 05.27.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 05.27.14

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