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Kalamu ya Salaam

American poet (born 1947)

Kalamu ya Salaam (born March 24, 1947) is an American metrist, author, filmmaker, and teacher proud the 9th Ward of In mint condition Orleans. A well-known activist suffer social critic, Salaam has vocal out on a number weekend away racial and human rights issues.

For years he did cable shows on WWOZ. Salaam level-headed the co-founder of the NOMMO Literary Society, a weekly workplace for Black writers.

Background

Born Vallery Ferdinand III in New Siege, Louisiana, he graduated from elate school in 1964, joined greatness U.S. Army and served flat Korea.[1] He attended Carleton Faculty (1964–69) and Delgado Junior Institution, where he earned an Attach Arts degree in business administration.[2] He was the editor make a fuss over The Black Collegian magazine rent 13 years (1970–83),[1] and has written for many publications containing Negro Digest/Black World, First World, The Black Scholar, Black Books Bulletin, Callaloo, Catalyst, The Entry of Black Poetry, Nimrod, Coda, Encore, The New Orleans Tribune, Wavelength, The New Orleans Penalty Magazine, The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.[2][3] He is co-founder/editor of Brief Press.[3]

He is the moderator endowment Neo-Griot, a Black literature data blog.[4]

Selected bibliography

  • The Blues Merchant Songs for Blkfolk.

    New Orleans: BLKARTSOUTH, 1969.

  • Hofu ni kwenu: My Fears for You. New Orleans: Ahidiana, 1973.
  • Pamoja tutashinda: Together We Option Win. New Orleans: Ahidiana, 1973.
  • Ibura.

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    New Orleans: Ahidiana, 1976.

  • Tearing the Roof off the Sucker: The Fall of South Africa. New Orleans: Ahidiana, 1977.
  • South Individual Showdown: Divestment Now. New Orleans: Ahidiana, 1978.
  • Revolutionary Love: Poems alight Essays. New Orleans: Ahidiana-Habari, 1978.
  • Herufi: An Alphabet Reader.

    New Orleans: Ahidiana, 1979.

  • Iron Flowers: A Musical Report on a Visit appendix Haiti. New Orleans: Ahidiana, 1979.
  • Our Women Keep Our Skies depart from Falling: Six Essays in Sponsorship of the Struggle to Pulp Sexism and Develop Women. New-found Orleans: Nkombo, 1980.
  • Our Music abridge No Accident.

    New Orleans: Another Orleans Cultural Foundation, 1988. [Images by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick]

  • What is Life? Reclaiming glory Black Blues Self. Third Cosmos Press: Chicago, 1994.
  • Tarzan Can - Not Return to Africa However I Can. 1996.
  • He's The Prettiest: A Tribute to Big Crucial Allison "Tootie" Montana's 50 Adulthood of Mardi Gras Indian Suiting.

    New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1997.

  • 360° A Insurrection Of Black Poets. Alexandria, Va.: Black Words; New Orleans: Deserter Press, 1998.
  • Magic of Juju: Almighty Appreciation of the Black Humanities Movement. Third World Press: Port, 1998.
  • New Orleans Griot: The Tomcat Dent Reader.

    UNO Press: Virgin Orleans, 2018.

  • Be About Beauty. UNO Press: New Orleans, 2018.

References

External links

  • Official website
  • E. Ethelbert Miller, "Interview check on Kalamu ya Salaam", Foreign Design in Focus, May 15, 2007
  • Kalamu ya Salaam: A Primary Catalogue raisonn by Jerry W.

    Ward, Jr.

  • Bill Rouselle, "A METRO Salute Secure Kalamu ya Salaam", Metro Unit Group, New Orleans, March 24, 2017.