tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post2361743869388412593..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Tyhemba Jess - (Poem) "Another Man Done" (with biographical information, information about slam poetry, and more)Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-76592643474258570892017-04-11T18:09:15.890-04:002017-04-11T18:09:15.890-04:00Here's an excerpt from https://www.dailykos.co...Here's an excerpt from <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/04/11/1651501/-Black-Kos-Tuesday-s-Chile" rel="nofollow">https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/04/11/1651501/-Black-Kos-Tuesday-s-Chile</a> 4/11/2017<br />"WriteOn! 2017 Black Pulitzer Prize winners.<br /><br />Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez<br /><br />This Year’s List of Pulitzer Prize Winners Is Full of Melanin. <br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Colson Whitehead took home the venerable fiction prize for his critically-acclaimed novel The Underground Railroad, which reimagines the historic route as an actual railroad. The book has been optioned for film and will be brought to the screen by Moonlight director Barry Jenkins.<br /><br />Playwright Lynn Nottage won her second Pulitzer Prize for drama, this time for Sweat, a project that has been hailed as the “first theatrical landmark of the Trump era” by the New York Times. Poet and professor Tyehimba Jess took home the poetry prize for his seminal collection, Olio, which “presents the sweat and story behind America’s blues, worksongs and church hymns.” Lastly, Hilton Als of the New York Times was honored in the journalism category for distinguished criticism.<br /><br />The award has been given out 101 times. Past Black winners include, Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Literature, journalist Eugene Robinson, Playwrights August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks, poet Natasha Trethewey, and historians Manning Marable and Isabel Wilkerson, among others."...Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-69208832084239739972017-04-11T03:14:29.095-04:002017-04-11T03:14:29.095-04:00As an aside, it was interesting to learn that arti...As an aside, it was interesting to learn that artist Jacob Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey as that was also my birth place. Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-73339774186941501532017-04-11T03:11:36.638-04:002017-04-11T03:11:36.638-04:00My guess is that the title of Tyhemba Jess' po...My guess is that the title of Tyhemba Jess' poem "Another Man Done" has its source in the African American song "Another Man Done Gone". <br /><br />Click <a href="https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/09/vera-hall-another-man-done-gone-sound.html" rel="nofollow">https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/09/vera-hall-another-man-done-gone-sound.html</a> for the pancocojams post "Vera Hall - "Another Man Done Gone" (sound file, lyrics, & comments)".<br /><br />Also, click <a href="http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/09/odetta-another-man-done-gone-sound-file.html" rel="nofollow">ttp://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2015/09/odetta-another-man-done-gone-sound-file.html</a> for a companion post of Odetta singing "Another Man Done Gone".Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com