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19 lip 2010 · Sonia Sanchez wrote during the Black Arts Movement, and one of the philosophies of that movement was that two worlds existed--one world which Whites inhabited, and a second world which Blacks inhabited. “homecoming” addresses those two worlds and the two perspectives people have when they try to live in both worlds.
8 lis 2023 · Clips from an interview conducted with Sonia Sanchez, an original participant in the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival hosted by Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander...
Interview with Sonia Sanchez, Poet Laureate of Philadelphia, renowned advocate for peace, and artistic mother to generations of local poets and writers. Part...
Sanchez is the author of more than 20 books, including Homecoming (1969), We a BaddDDD People (1970), Love Poems (1973), I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems (1978), A Sound Investment (1980), Homegirls and Handgrenades (1984), Under a Soprano Sky (1987), Wounded in the House of a Friend (1995), Does Your House Have Lions?
A political activist of the 1960’s Civil Rights movement, Sonia Sanchez has been recognized for her considerable poetic talents. Called “a lion in literature’s forest” by poet Maya Angelou ...
12 paź 2017 · Sonia Sanchez has taught at 8 universities and spoken at over 500. She became recognized as an influential voice of the Black Arts movement in the late 60’s as her book Home Coming came out. This is one of many books, children’s books, and plays she has written since that time.
12 sie 2024 · [In the following essay, Williams analyzes the changes that have occurred in Sanchez's poetry from her first collection, Homecoming, to her I've Been a Woman, including a new sense of...
