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Direct linkMehta, Diane – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
Thomas Sayers Ellis, assistant professor of creative writing at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, is one of many scholars fighting for the soul of Black poetry, a struggle that takes place largely off-campus. Unless one is accepted into a top-level graduate poetry program, such as Boston University's program or the Iowa Writing Workshop, a poet's…
Descriptors: Poetry, Writing Workshops, Black Colleges, Creative Writing
