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Interview Details
Title & Link
Paris Review - The Art of Poetry No. 100
Publish Date
October 2, 2016
Interviewees
Ishmael Reed
Interviewers
Chris Jackson
Publisher
The Paris Review
Topics
creative process
history of black writing
literary influences
political activism
religion and culture
People Mentioned
Amiri Baraka
Calvin Hernton
Carla Blank
Dante
David Henderson
Eleanor Roosevelt
George Orwell
Hortense Butts
James Baldwin
Joe Walker
John Ciardi
Langston Hughes
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lorenzo Thomas
Louis Armstrong
Malcolm X
Miles Davis
Monk
Muhammad Ali
Norman Pritchard
Olga Tokarczuk
Sharon Olds
T. S. Eliot
Tennessee Reed
Timothy Reed
Works Mentioned
A Cool Million
Dubliners
Inferno
Japanese by Spring
Mass
Mumbo Jumbo
Notes of a Native Son
Saturday Review
SOS
The Free-Lance Pallbearers
The Last Days of Louisiana Red
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
Places Mentioned
Atlanta
Brazil
Buffalo
Los Angeles
New Orleans
New York
Nigeria
Oakland
Paris
Venice
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