Sonia Sanchez at WSSU

Poet and activist Sonia Sanchez spoke at Winston-Salem State University as part of the Patterson Lecture Series on Wednesday, October 24, 2007. Afterward she met informally with students majoring in English.

Here are some links for more information about Ms. Sanchez and her work:

bullet sonia sanchez "peace"  Hear and see Sanchez read "Peace" on YouTube.  Also on YouTube: "Our Vision Is Our Voice," "Poem For Some Women," "Reading Her Tribute to Langston Hughes"
bullet Women's Review of Books, Feb. 2004 Scroll down to read "Peace (a poem for Maxine Greene)" and "Reflections after the June 12th March for Disarmament."
bullet Poetry Month: 'Song No.2'  In April 2005, an NPR site featured Ms. Sanchez reading one of her poems. You can read the poem yourself on this page and click on a link to hear her read it.
bullet Sunken Garden Poetry Festival: For Sweet Honey in the Rock Read another poem here. Scroll to the bottom to hear the poet read it.
bullet Sonia Sanchez at Poets.org (includes a link to her poem "Ballad")
bullet Sonia Sanchez at Voices from the Gaps (includes primary and secondary bibliography)
bullet Award-winning poet Sonia Sanchez at JCU This is a report on the poet's visit to another campus.
bullet Meet the Poet: Sonia Sanchez  This page at Boston's WGBH provides not only audio but video.
bullet under a soprano sky
bullet "Discipline and Craft: An Interview with Sonia Sanchez" This article from the winter 2000 issue of African American Review is available on campus from the JSTOR database. (WSSU students can read this from off-campus sites by signing in as for campus e-mail.)
bullet Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) This is the Heath Anthology of American Literature page about Sonia Sanchez.
bullet Sonia Sanchez: "Malcolm" Teachers' Domain offers a video of Sanchez reading and discussing the poem. There are also discussion questions and a background essay. Further video clips show her talking about "Meeting Malcolm X" and "The Meaning of Malcolm X."
bullet Sonia Sanchez and Ten Grandmothers Acquitted of ‘Defiant Trespassing’  "The grandmothers—all of whom are against the war in Iraq—staged a peaceful protest outside a U.S. Armed Forces Center in downtown Philadelphia on June 28, 2006. (More here.)
 

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