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Mari Evans

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Born: July 15 1923

Died: 0909 03 20172017

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Mari Evans attended the University of Toledo and later taught at several other schools, including Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., and Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. She began five years of writing, producing, and directing for an Indianapolis television program, “The Black Experience,” in 1968, the same year her first poetry collection, Where Is All the Music?, was published. With her second collection, I Am a Black Woman , she gained acclaim as an important new poet. Her poem “Who Can Be Born Black” was often anthologized.

Her later collections include Nightstar: 1973–1978 , whose poems praise blues artists and community heroes and heroines, and A Dark and Splendid Mass . Continuum, published in 2007, contains classic poems from Evans's previous collections as well as new work inflected by the same unique insight into African American life that defined her earlier oeuvre. In her works for young readers, Evans often touched on difficult topics such as child abuse and adolescent relationships . Evans's plays include River of My Song and the musical Eyes , an adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. She edited the anthology Black Women Writers : A Critical Evaluation and published Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective , a collection of essays commenting on African American politics and family life.

Oxford Companion to African American Literature: Mari Evans

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Mari Evans

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Books from Mari Evans

I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans

Soul Looks Back in Wonder

I Am a Black Woman

A Dark And Splendid Mass

Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation

"I'm Late": the Story of LaNeese and Moonlight and Alisha Who Didn't Have Anyone of Her Own

Continuum: New and Selected Poems

Dear Corinne, Tell Somebody! Love, Annie: A Book about Secrets

Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective

Nightstar: 1973-1978 (C a a S Special Publication)

I Look at Me!

Singing Black: Alternative Nursery Rhymes for Children

Jim Flying High