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Interview Details
Title & Link
Writing for a Global Audience: An Interview with Poet Ishmael Reed - Public Books
Publish Date
November 20, 2019
Interviewees
Ishmael Reed
Interviewers
Keisha N. Blain
Publisher
Public Books
Topics
Career accomplishments
Contemporary Authors
Current projects
Evolution of Work
Favorite Genre/Medium
influences
poetry
reading habits
Writing for a Global Audience
People Mentioned
Arna Bontemps
Barbara Christian
bell hooks
Benjamin Drew
Bruce Nugent
Countee Cullen
Don DeLillo
Edwidge Danticat
George Schuyler
Gloria Naylor
Grace Wales Bonner
Harold Bloom
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
James Baldwin
Jean Toomer
John A. Williams
Langston Hughes
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Louise Meriwether
Macy Gray
Margaret Walker
Michele Wallace
Nelson George
Robert Hass
Stanley Crouch
Taj Mahal
Thelonious Monk
Toni Morrison
Zora Neale Hurston
Works Mentioned
A Secretary to the Spirits
Barack Obama and The Jim Crow Media; or, The Return of the Nigger Breakers
Black No More
Black Thunder
Chattanooga
Conjure
Daddy Was a Number Runner
Flight to Canada
Giovanni’s Room
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Going Too Far: Essays about America’s Nervous Breakdown
Japanese by Spring
Jubilee
Juice!
Mixing It Up: Taking On the Media Bullies and Other Reflections
Mumbo Jumbo
New and Collected Poems
Tar Baby
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone
Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica
The Book That Made Me
The Complete Muhammad Ali
The Terrible Twos
Why No Confederate Statues in Mexico
Why The Black Hole Sings the Blues
Places Mentioned
Africa
BART station in Richmond, California
Berkeley, California
Canada
China
Europe
Hunan
Japan
Mexico
New York
Nigeria
Northern California
Richmond, New York
Tokyo
United States
Venice
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