
African American Experience: Memoirs and Essays
Personal writing by African-American authors can transcend self-reflection, becoming meditations on history, justice, and freedom from oppression.
Charles Rossiter, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient and five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, hosts the twice-monthly podcast series at www.poetryspokenhere.com. He has led workshops and taught at literary festivals, community organizations, libraries, prisons and schools from 10th grade to graduate level. His Ph.D. is in interpersonal communication and psychology and his poetry has been featured at the Dodge Festival in NJ and on NPR. His latest book of poems is Green Mountain Meditations. Others include: All Over America: Road Poems, Winter Poems, and Lakeside Poems. He edited the anthology, In the Spirit of T’ao Ch’ien, and co-edited the just-released, Coast to Coast: The Rte 20 Anthology.
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Personal writing by African-American authors can transcend self-reflection, becoming meditations on history, justice, and freedom from oppression.
This series pairs Isabel Wilkerson’s masterful history of this Great Migration with fiction and memoir that illuminate the north/south divide.
This series features a history of the era alongside texts that have come to define the Harlem Renaissance.
A multi-session group is the ideal environment in which to relish these classic works of literature of a certain size and heft.
This series deals with the experiences of Mexicans living in the United States, from the struggles of migrant farmworkers and day laborers in California to coming of age stories of Chicanos as U.S. citizens.
These delightful and rich collections of short poems offer a great first foray into poetry for mixed-age groups.
Vermont Reads is Vermont Humanities’ statewide community reading program. These books are all high-quality young-adult level works that offer food for thought for all ages.