2011:YORM | Dr. Madhubuti on "Responsibilty"

Interview conducted by Kenneth Braswell with Dr. Madhubuti on "Responsibility" and "Fatherhood & Manhood" for the 2011:Year of Responsible Men Campaign

Haki R. Madhubuti is a poet, critic, essayist, teacher, editor, publisher, and businessperson. In 1963 Madhubuti left the army, and four years later Dudley Randall's Broadside Press published Madhubuti's first collection of poetry, Think Black (1967), which had been previously published by the author himself. Six books, all published by Broadside Press, followed: five collections of poetry—Black Pride (1968), Don't Cry, Scream (1969), We Walk the Way of the New World (1970), Directionscore: Selected and New Poems (1971), Book of Life (1973)—and a collection of critical essays, Dynamite Voices: Black Poets of the 1960s (1971).

Madhubuti is director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center at Chicago State University and a professor of English. Having received an MFA from the University of Iowa, he has taught as a writer in residence at Cornell, Howard, Morgan State, and Central State universities as well as the University of Illinois in Chicago. In addition to being named author of the year for 1991 by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English, he received an American Book Award for Publishing and Editing in 1991 and the African Heritage Studies Association's Community Service Award in 1994.

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[malarki5]

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