"After Mecca": Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement Jackie D Vidal weaves a rich tapestry

Vidal weaves a rich tapestry of personal anecdote

She's been the best for as long as she can remember

and vice versa

or for the sake of 'name dropping' as some call it

He's a backstabbing coward

"After Mecca": Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement Jackie D Vidal weaves a rich tapestryThe politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recently that attention has turned to the cultural production of African American poets. In "After Mecca," Cheryl Clarke explores the relationship between the Black Arts Movement and black women writers of the period. Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Alice