Sonia Sanchez was born Wilsonia Benita Driver on September 9, 1934, in Birmingham, Alabama. After her mother died in childbirth a year later, Sanchez lived with her paternal grandmother and other relatives for several years. In 1943, she moved to Harlem with her sister to live with their father and his third wife.
She earned a BA in political science from Hunter College in 1955. She also did postgraduate work at New York University and studied poetry with Louise Bogan. Sanchez formed a writers’ workshop in Greenwich Village, attended by such poets as Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee), and Larry Neal. Along with Madhubuti, Nikki Giovanni, and Etheridge Knight, she formed the “Broadside Quartet” of young poets, introduced and promoted by Dudley Randall.
forgive me if i laugh
you are so sure of love
you are so young
and i too old to learn of love.
Sunday, April 14
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Homewood
Large Auditorium
https://homewood.libnet.info/event/1880232
Books and more………..
Shake loose my skin : new and selected poems
The historymakers talking truth. Volume 2, Faith [videorecording]
VIDEOS:
WEBSITES:
http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3206
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/sonia-sanchez
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/sanchez-sonia-1934/
An Evening with Sonia Sanchez
Tue, April 16, 2019
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
Jefferson State Community College
4600 Valleydale Road
Health Sciences Building 129, Multipurpose Room
Birmingham, AL 35242
