Sunday, January 25, 2015

Poets in new anthology Black Gold

Marvin X and Nuyorican Poet Nancy Mercado appear in the anthology Black Gold. Longtime friends, Nancy attended the reception for Marvin X at the Harlem home of poet, novelist Rashidah Ismaili. Nancy says, "Happy and grateful to have my work included in this powerful and beautiful anthology with such greats as Sonia Sanchez, Gil Scott-Heron, Marvin X, Eugene Redmond, SE Anderson and many others."

Black Gold is an Anthology of the Best Black Poetry in the Africa and African American world. Edited by Ja A. Jahannes

New York poets and artists welcome Marvin X to Harlem, hosted by Rashidah Ismaili, who has just published a novel. She is seeking readings on the West Coast. Rashidah hosted the memorial for poets Jayne Cortez and Amiri Baraka at New York University last year.

Black Gold 1 edition

By Ja A. Jahannes (Editor)

About the Book

Black Gold is a highly original anthology of poems featuring works by a collective of nearly 100 authors who span multiple generations and represent voices from throughout communities of the African and Latino Diaspora. The contributors include noted veteran authors of the historical Black Arts Movement as Sonia Sanchez, Marvin X, and the late Gil Scott-Heron to such celebrated contemporary voices as those of Evie Shockley, Opal Palmer Adisa, and Aberjhani. Unlike the Norton Anthology Series 2013 offering of Angles of Ascent, the Black Gold anthology dares to step outside the canon of officially-recognized academic black poets to spotlight individuals who are as unflinching in their bold literary gaze as they are fierce in their passionate dance with language.