Minnie Bruce Pratt on Woman-Stirred Radio
Please join Woman-Stirred Radio, this Thursday, May 4th at 4:30pm EST for an interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt.
Minnie Bruce was born September 12, 1946, in Selma, Alabama. She graduated from segregated Bibb County High School and attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, a year after George Wallace 'stood in the schoolhouse door'. She completed a Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In addition to her academic training, Minnie Bruce was educated by the great liberation struggles of the 20th century ----through grass-roots organizing with women in the army-base town of Fayetteville, NC, and through teaching at historically Black universities.
Her books of poetry include: The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Poetry; Walking Back Up Depot Street, which was named book of the year by ForeWord magazine in the Gay/Lesbian category and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry; Crime Against Nature, which was chosen as the Academy's Lamont Poetry Selection, received the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature; We Say We Love Each Other; and a chapbook, The Sound of One Fork.
Join Merry Gangemi and Minnie Bruce Pratt, this Thursday May 4th @ 4:30pm EST on Woman-Stirred Radio. Only on WGDR 91.1 fm Community radio for Central Vermont and the rest of the world!
Music from 4 to 4:30. Interview begins at 4:30 pm.
Minnie Bruce was born September 12, 1946, in Selma, Alabama. She graduated from segregated Bibb County High School and attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, a year after George Wallace 'stood in the schoolhouse door'. She completed a Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In addition to her academic training, Minnie Bruce was educated by the great liberation struggles of the 20th century ----through grass-roots organizing with women in the army-base town of Fayetteville, NC, and through teaching at historically Black universities.
Her books of poetry include: The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Poetry; Walking Back Up Depot Street, which was named book of the year by ForeWord magazine in the Gay/Lesbian category and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry; Crime Against Nature, which was chosen as the Academy's Lamont Poetry Selection, received the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature; We Say We Love Each Other; and a chapbook, The Sound of One Fork.
Join Merry Gangemi and Minnie Bruce Pratt, this Thursday May 4th @ 4:30pm EST on Woman-Stirred Radio. Only on WGDR 91.1 fm Community radio for Central Vermont and the rest of the world!
Music from 4 to 4:30. Interview begins at 4:30 pm.
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