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From: Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:05:28 -0700
To: Maria Damon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: FW: lorenzo thomas update
Sorry for cross-posting if you have previously seen this message from Maria
Damon regarding Lorenzo Thomas. Sad. A lovely man with a grace.
Stephen V
From: Maria Damon <[log in to unmask]>
dear friends: i hesitate a bit to forward this to so large a group
but if you could send good energy and prayers lorenzo-ward it'd be
much appreciated --md
>Subject: FW: Lorenzo Thomas - Community Notice
>From: Chris Fischbach <[log in to unmask]>
> Community Notice
>
>June 29, 2005
>
>Lorenzo Thomas is presently very ill. He is now residing at the
>facility listed below.
>
>The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center
>1905 Holcombe Blvd.
>(off Almeda Rd.)
>
>Phone: (713) 677-7262
>
>
>Please keep Brother Lorenzo and his family in your prayers.
>
>
>
>
>
>About Lorenzo Thomas
>
>"Thomas is a professor of English at the University of
>Houston-Downtown (and a sometime book reviewer for the Chronicle).
>Born in Panama, he grew up in New York City and attended Queens
>College (City University of New York). As a young writer he was part
>of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and '70s, which melded
>aesthetics with political engagement. Amiri Baraka, formerly known
>as LeRoi Jones, is perhaps the best-known name associated with it.
>Thomas was a founding member of the Umbra Workshop, a collective of
>young black writers on Manhattan's Lower East Side."
>
>
>
-Houston
>Chronicle
>
>Link:
><http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors/thomas/>http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/au
thors/thomas/
>
>Poetry
>
>Dancing on Main Street, Coffee House Press, 2004
>
>Bathers, Reed International Books, 1981
>
>Chances Are Few, Blue Wind Press, 1979
>
>Criticism
>
>Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20Th-Century
>American Poetry, University of Alabama Press; 2000
>
>Sing the Sun Up: Creative Writing Ideas from African American
>Literature, Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1998
>
>
>Biographical/Critical Sources:
>
>from Gale Databases:
><http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors/thomas/thomas_gale_essay_2.html>Dictiona
ry
>of Literary Biography
>
>from Gale Databases:
><http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/authors/thomas/thomas_gale_essay_1.html>Contempo
rary
>Authors
>
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