Third World Press

Today's focus is the fierce Carolyn Rodgers, a revolutionary Chicago poet of the Black Arts Movement. Carolyn Rodgers(1940-2010), a Chicago poet who first learned her trade in the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC) Writer's Workshop meetings and Gwendolyn Brooks's Writers Workshops, was distinctive as a new black woman poet in the late 1960s, when she … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: The Black Arts Movement