by George J. Dance
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (born 1967) is an African-American poet and writer of fiction.[1]
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers in 2014. Photo by Slowking. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Jeffers grew up in Durham, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia.[2]
She earned an M.F.A. from the University of Alabama.[1]
Career[]
Fanonne is an associate professor of English, and teaches creative writing, at the University of Oklahoma.[1]
Her poetry has been published in the American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner, and anthologized in numerous volumes, including Roll Call: A generational anthology of social and political Black literature, and art (2002) and These Hands I Know: Writing about the African American family (2002).[2]
Her fiction has appeared in the Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Story Quarterly.[2]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Gospel of Barbecue: Poems. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2000.
- Outlandish Blues. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003.
- Red Clay Suite. Carbondale, IL: Crab Orchard Review / Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.
- The Glory Gets. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2016.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - 1 3 - from Outlandish Blues and early versions from Red Clay Suite
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Academy of American Poets, Poets.org, Web, Jan. 22, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Honorée Fanonne Jeffers," Poetry Foundation, Web, Jan. 22, 2012.
- ↑ Search results = au:Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 10, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers profile 7 5 poems at the Academy of American Poets
- Four Poems by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers at Deep South
- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers at the Poetry Foundation
- Prose
- Audio / video
- About
- Honorée Fanonne Jeffers at the University of Oklahoma
- Phillis Remastered, Jeffers's weblog
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