Through poems and plays, he invited audiences into sacred spaces ... But a rejection letter from Toni Morrison would reroute his journey. “You occasionally write a little too gorgeously,” Morrison ...

Toni Morrison (Photo by Deborah Feingold/Corbis ... of unwritten novels, poems whispered or swallowed for fear of being overheard by the wrong people, outlawed languages flourishing underground ...

Programs will include book discussions, a poetry contest ... Historical Society will present a biographical showcase on Toni Morrison, detailing the Lorain native’s contributions to literature.

Morrison Illustration of Toni Morrison and June Jordan by Rachelle ... of unwritten novels, poems whispered or swallowed for fear of being overheard by the wrong people, outlawed languages ...

Reading Toni Morrison as a Black girl ... Those stirrings continued with more modern contributions. Poet and playwright Ntozake Shange’s book If I Can Cook / You Know God Can was published ...

Toni Morrison wanted to couple this with a lyrical ... A story that mixes horror, history and poetry, it was inspired by the true story of runaway slave Margaret Garner who, when facing recapture ...

Thirty years ago, on October 7, 1993, Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature ... And she addresses us with the luster of poetry.” As the 90 th winner of the prize, Morrison received ...

Novelist, poet, artist: Morrison and the imagination In the conversation ... Harlem Renaissance to Present” with Nishikawa and “Topics in African American Literature: Reading Toni Morrison” with ...

Pictured are the writers Nana Maynard, Ntozake Shange, Louise Meriwether, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, Alice Walker, Audrey Edwards, June Jordan, and Toni Morrison ... and poetry—but the one ...

So begins Toni Morrison’s debut novel ... to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.” But the majority of it was negative and dismissive.