I find it fairly nauseating that among your list of eminent writers you do not have a single African American writer when for the last twenty years African American writers, led by the Cave CSSanem organization, have led a revolution in American literature, especially in the field of poetry, and including all the awards we all value so hardly, ie Pulitzer Prizes won by Tyehimba Jess for his pioneering long poem OLIO, Natasha Tretheway(and US Poeet Laureate, Greg Pardo. Tracy K. Smith ( who has also served as US Poet Laureate, John Keene( for Punks), Colson Whitehead ( forUnderground Railroad) and let's not forget Jessmyn Ward, the only writer in the history of American literature to win the National Book Award TWICE.
One more aspect of the entrenched an calcified bedrock oblivion of too many Americans robbed by elit snobby critics and too many upper class biggot teachers in MFA programs and elite American colleges and those who whine about "identiity politics' when for over three centuries white identiy politics have ruled the intellectual life of the United States to the cultural deprivation of its citizens , cutting us off from titanic oceans of wonder and orginality
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I find it fairly nauseating that among your list of eminent writers you do not have a single African American writer when for the last twenty years African American writers, led by the Cave CSSanem organization, have led a revolution in American literature, especially in the field of poetry, and including all the awards we all value so hardly, ie Pulitzer Prizes won by Tyehimba Jess for his pioneering long poem OLIO, Natasha Tretheway(and US Poeet Laureate, Greg Pardo. Tracy K. Smith ( who has also served as US Poet Laureate, John Keene( for Punks), Colson Whitehead ( forUnderground Railroad) and let's not forget Jessmyn Ward, the only writer in the history of American literature to win the National Book Award TWICE.
One more aspect of the entrenched an calcified bedrock oblivion of too many Americans robbed by elit snobby critics and too many upper class biggot teachers in MFA programs and elite American colleges and those who whine about "identiity politics' when for over three centuries white identiy politics have ruled the intellectual life of the United States to the cultural deprivation of its citizens , cutting us off from titanic oceans of wonder and orginality
Hi Ernie. What list of eminent writers are you referring to here?
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