Don't Deny My Voice: Week 2 Overview
Channel: KU OLRC
Date: 2014-02-01

Don't Deny My Voice: Reading and Teaching African American Poetry was a three-week summer institute for college and university teachers, as well as graduate students, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities that responded to the resurgence of interest in contemporary poetry, its expanded production and wide circulation. We focused on the history, changes and modal transformations of African American poetry in our cultural and social landscape and consider three critical periods: 1900-1960, 1960-80 and 1980-present.