Quoting Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> What you think there's a sexist bias, Max?
>
> I'd sure love to see someone I know & care about in there, but I admit
> my tastes are often, um, obscure....
>
> & because I simply cant keep up, there's a chance these are really
> fine books, of course.....
>
> Doug
Now you mention it, P Smith may well appear to some as a token...but cv seems
substantial...
From the NBA website:
Patricia Smith, who has been called “a testament to the power of words to change
lives,” is the author of four books of poetry: Teahouse of the Almighty, a 2005
National Poetry Series selection (Coffee House Press, 2006); Close to Death
(Zoland Books); Big Towns, Big Talk (Zoland), which won the Carl Sandburg
Literary Award; and Life According to Motown (Tia Chucha). Her poems have been
published in many anthologies, including American Voices (2005), The Spoken Word
Revolution (2003), and Bum Rush the Page (2003.)
Smith also penned the critically acclaimed history Africans in America (1998)
and the award-winning children’s book Janna and the Kings (2003). She is
currently working on Fixed on a Furious Star, a biography of Harriet Tubman to
be published by Crown.
A four-time individual champion on the National Poetry Slam, Smith has also been
a featured poet on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and has performed her work around the
world. She has written and performed two one-woman plays, one of which was
produced by Derek Walcott’s Trinidad Theater Workshop. She is a Cave Canem
faculty member and has served as the Bruce McEver Chair in Writing at Georgia
Tech University.
Gorgeous smile too. Still looking for the list of judges...
Max
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