Celebrating the Spoken Word: I am Blessed, I Am Black america

Celebrating the Spoken Word

I met Ramona Hyman a few years ago at one of the Alabama Writers Cooperative conferences. I was pleased to buy and read her poetry collection, In the Sanctuary of a South. Ramona L. Hyman, Ph.D., is a poet, performance artist, essayist, professor, and chair of the English Department at Oakmont University in Huntsville, Alabama.

From the World Class Speakers and Entertainers site:

Hyman challenges audiences to explore a poetic imagination grounded in a feel for the southern landscape, African-American literary and political history, black spirituality, and a creative fusion of black folk speech with a Euro-American poetic vernacular.

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