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Eugene B. Redmond

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Born: November 30 1937

Eugene B. Redmond is an American poet, and academic. His poetry is closely connected to the Black Arts Movement and the city of East St. Louis, Illinois.

He was named Poet Laureate of East St. Louis in 1976, the year Doubleday Publishing Co. released his best selling book, Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry. Earlier, he spent two years as Teacher-Counselor and Poet-in-Residence at Southern Illinois University’s Experiment in Higher Education where he taught with Katherine Dunham. From 1970-85, he was Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at California State University-Sacramento. During that time he won an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, an Outstanding Faculty Research Award, a Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and served as a visiting professor at universities in the U.S., Africa, and Europe. In 1986, a year after he returned home to East St. Louis, local authors created the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club in his honor.

Author/editor of 25 volumes of poetry, collections of diverse writings, plays for stage and TV, and posthumously published works of Henry Dumas, Redmond read a poem at Maya Angelou’s 70th birthday gala hosted by Oprah Winfrey. The year 2008 also capped a long line of awards and accolades when he received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree from SIUE. Additionally, Redmond has won an American Book Award , the Sterling Brown Award from ALA’s African American Literature and Culture Association, a Staying the Course Award from ETA of Chicago and a the St. Louis American Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award

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Eugene B. Redmond

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Books from Eugene B. Redmond

Soul Looks Back in Wonder

Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas

Goodbye, Sweetwater: New and Selected Stories

Poetry for My People

Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry: A Critical History

River of bones and flesh and blood

Sentry of the Four Golden Pillars

The Eye in the Ceiling: Poems

Gathering at the Crossroads: The Million Man March, Haiku

Drumvoices Revue (A Confluence of Literary, Culture & Vision Arts), Summer-Fall 2000, Volume 9, Numbers 1 & 2