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Sekou Sundiata (1948-2007), born Robert Franklin Feaster, was a well known poet and writer. When he developed a love of poetry as a teenager, he changed his name, drawing influence from Sekou Toure, Ghana’s most famous president, and Sundiata from Sundiata Keita, king of Mali-Baraka. Many of Sundiata’s works were influenced by his upbringing in […]
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Stanley Diamond was an anthropologist and poet who founded The New School’s graduate anthropology program in 1970. The program soon developed into a full department, of which he served as its chairman until 1983 when he was made Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Humanities and University Poet. [1] Born in 1922 to a progressive and […]
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Slip away
go to the end of the line and keep going
make sure you’re alone
and unknown "