Re: Ahmos Zu-Bolton at Carver High School in 1976

The full story....
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http://www.nathanielturner.com/candelightvigilforahmoszubolton.htm
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https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Ahmos_Zu-Bolton#Poet_In_Residence
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************************************************Poet In Residence
"I linger here for the mountains the waters, and the shadows only … this
tribe ain’t mine." -Ahmos Zu-Bolton
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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.
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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]
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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.
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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.*********************************************************
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