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Sonia Sanchez—poet, activist, scholar—was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University. A pioneering writer of the Black Arts Movement, she is the author of sixteen books and the recipient of the Robert Frost Medal and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award.
In this searching interview, legendary Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez discusses the ancestral influences on her work and how art can give us strength.
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