{"id":1237,"date":"2003-02-02T11:13:53","date_gmt":"2003-02-02T11:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2015-05-17T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T11:28:10","slug":"world-famous-author-amiri-baraka-guest-lectures-in-st-martin-at-creative-writing-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/2003\/02\/02\/world-famous-author-amiri-baraka-guest-lectures-in-st-martin-at-creative-writing-program\/","title":{"rendered":"World famous author Amiri Baraka guest lectures in St. Martin at Creative Writing Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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GREAT BAY, St. Martin\u00a0<\/strong>(Feb.\u00a02, 2003)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/strong>The American author Amiri Baraka is\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0scheduled to speak in St. Martin on February 11 at the Creative Writing Program (CWP), said Lasana M. Sekou, the CWP coordinator.<\/p>\n

Baraka\u2019s address will be \u201cThe role of the writer in a developing nation.\u201d A Q&A and discussion will follow between him and the participants of the CWP\u2019s \u201cCreative Writing Process\u201d class.<\/p>\n

House of Nehesi Publishers invited Baraka in November 2002, to deliver one key lecture during its first six-month writing course that started in January 2003. Baraka\u2019s lovely wife of 38 years, poet-activist Amina, will accompany him on this their second visit to the Caribbean in just over 30 years.<\/p>\n

The author of some 40 books of essays, poems, drama and music history and criticism, is \u201ca revolutionary thinker of the highest order and an indomitable political activist whose activism has taken him from Black Nationalism during the 1960s to Marxism-Leninism\u2014without ever turning his literature into dogma or being an apologist for any movement or ideology,\u201d said Sekou. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and \u201cNo American writer has been more committed to social justice than Amiri Baraka,\u201d stated Beatriz Badikian in the\u00a0St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture<\/em> (2002). Baraka\u2019s two recent books,\u00a0Eulogies<\/em> and\u00a0Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music<\/em> were published in 2002.<\/p>\n

The native of Newark, New Jersey, is probably best known around the world as the father of the Black Arts Movement, founded in Harlem in the 1960s, and for his signature work on African-American music,\u00a0Blues People<\/em> and the play\u00a0Dutchman<\/em> (1963), which earned him the prestigious OBIE award. Baraka was recently inducted into The American Academy of Arts & Letters, awarded the James Weldon Johnson Medal for contributions to the arts and last July named Poet Laureate of New Jersey (2002-2004).<\/p>\n

Baraka, 68, who is also known for headlining news in ways rare to poets and authors, is currently engaged in a battle royal with New Jersey Governor James McGreevey and detractors demanding his resignation as Poet Laureate because of his poem about the 9-11 WTC bombings that has generated tremendous controversy\u2014causing the author\u2019s photo and words to be splashed across the pages of\u00a0The New York Times<\/em> and New York\u2019s\u00a0Amsterdam<\/em> News<\/em> and to be featured on CNN\u2014to name a few US city, state, national and international media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GREAT BAY, St. Martin\u00a0(Feb.\u00a02, 2003)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The American author Amiri Baraka is\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0scheduled to speak in St. Martin on February 11 at the Creative Writing Program (CWP), said Lasana M. Sekou, the CWP coordinator. Baraka\u2019s address will be \u201cThe role of the writer in a developing nation.\u201d A Q&A and discussion will follow between him and the participants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2003"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}