Category: Harlem Writer’s Guild

  • The Culture & Politics of Black Literature – The Heyday of the Real Harlem Writers Guild

    I must pay tribute to Grace Killens, who played a vital role in hosting us and holding the Harlem Writers Guild together for the many years that her husband John Oliver Killens presided. She was an immensely nourishing presence. In assessing the work of John Oliver Killens one needs to begin with World War II,…

  • Cuba Trip Impressions (1991)

    Originally published in Working People’s News – April 21, 1991 Thirty-one years ago, Sarah E. Wright, the great novelist and poet, was invited as part of a delegation of African-American writers, to attend a celebration of the revolutionary holiday July 26th, in this case the first celebration in a free Cuba. A month before her…