David Henderson. Courtesy Snipview.
David Henderson (born 1942) is an African-American poet and prose writer.
Life[]
Youth[]
Henderson was born in 1942 in Harlem, New York City,[1] and was raised in Harlem and the Bronx. As a university student he studied communications, writing, and Eastern Studies, but never finished his degree. His 1st published poem was in the weekly African-American newspaper The Black American, in 1960.
Umbra[]
In 1963 Henderson co-founded Umbra, both a literary collective and a literary magazine, with other Black writers and artists in New York's Lower East Side.[2] Henderson began as co-editor and then later became the general editor. Other notable editors and regular contributors to Umbra magazine include Tom Dent, Ishmael Reed, Brenda Walcott, N.H. Pritchard, Askia Toure, Lorenzo Thomas, Al Haynes and Calvin C. Hernton, among others. Nikki Giovanni and Quincy Troupe were also published in Umbra magazine.
Henderson's first collection of poetry, entitled Felix of the Silent Forest, was published in 1967 under the Kriya Press imprint, with an introduction by Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones).[3]
In 2009 an expanded version of his 1978 critically acclaimed biography of Jimi Hendrix, Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky, was re-published with additional photographs and musings by Henderson.[4]
Recognition[]
- 1971: Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
- 1992: California Arts Council, New Genre Poetry Grant
- 1999: Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Artist Grant
- 1999: New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Felix of the Silent Forest. New York: Poets Press, 1967.
- De Mayor of Harlem: The poetry of David Henderson. New York: Dutton, 1970.
- The Low East. Richmond, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1980.
Non-fiction[]
- The Poetry of 'soul' . New York: Umbra, [1970?]
- Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo child of the Aquarian Age. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978;
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ "Biography, 1942". http://biography.jrank.org.
- ↑ Lisa Gail Collins, Margo Natalie Crawford (2006). New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813536958.
- ↑ "World Catalog". http://www.worldcat.org/title/felix-of-the-silent-forest/oclc/001004104.
- ↑ "David Henderson". Simon & Schuster Author's Page. http://authors.simonandschuster.com/David-Henderson/30281290/books. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
- ↑ Search results = au:David Henderson, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, June 30, 2015.
External links[]
- Audio / video
- Books
- David Henderson at Amazon.com
- David Henderson at Simon & Schuster
- About
- David Henderson biography at JRank.org
- Obama's Victory through the Eyes of David Henderson, interview at Africultures, 2009
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