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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Ahmos Zu-Bolton at Carver High School in 1976
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:28:49 +0000
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Zod wrote:

> The full story....
>
> http://www.nathanielturner.com/candelightvigilforahmoszubolton.htm
>
> https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Ahmos_Zu-Bolton#Poet_In_Residence
>
> ***
>
> ************************************************Poet In Residence
> "I linger here for the mountains the waters, and the shadows only … this
> tribe ain’t mine." -Ahmos Zu-Bolton
>
> Zu-Bolton was an African-American Beat poet of the 1970s who touched
> lives as a “poet” in the classrooms of Virginia, Georgia and Texas. He
> was instrumental to college campuses adding new bodies of thought about
> poetry and color, as a writer of poetry collections such as Fishpond
> Australia, Ain't No Spring Chicken, Hoo-Doo, and A N*ggered Amen, which
> was published December 1, 1975. Ahmos Zu-Bolton was Resident Poet and
> advisor for the student publication Pegasus Literary Journal 1976 at
> George Washington Carver High School (Columbus, Georgia) in Columbus,
> Georgia in the spring of 1976, for the class of Dan Barfield, where he
> met, taught and was a major influence on the life and poetry of Will
> Dockery, and, the next year, Grace Cavalieri.
>
> Cavalieri: "In 1977 he took my first full-length poetry book Body Fluids
> for distribution and sent me the first check I ever received for poetry.
> I think it was $7.00 or $8.00. He reached across race to include me.
> Connections. Interconnectedness is more like it."[8]
>
> In Washington, D.C., Ethelbert Miller became his historian. Zu-Bolton
> was co-director to Ethelbert Miller's Directorship of the Afro American
> Resource Center at Howard University; and, there still exists in D.C. a
> community of poets who will always revere and love him. He teamed up
> with artists in New Orleans, Galveston, Austin and Houston to produce
> his HooDoo Festivals.
>
> While living in New Orleans he taught English, African American Studies
> and Creative Writing at Xavier University, Tulane University and Delgado
> Community College. He was Visiting Writer in Residence at University of
> Missouri.. When Zu Bolton died in 2005, that college held a candlelight
> vigil. And, he connected with the old as well as the young: he and his
> wife, poet Harryette Mullen, worked with senior citizens in 1978,
> teaching and encouraging their life
> stories.*********************************************************
>
> ***

Again, good find, Zod.