Conversations with Margaret Walker

Books by Margaret Walker

On Being Female, Black and Free / For My People: A Tribute / How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature /

This Is My Country: New and Collected Poems / Richard Wright: Daemonic Genius

Poetic Equation: Conversations with Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker

How I Wrote Jubilee / Prophets for a New Day / Jubilee / For My People

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Introduction	vii
Chronology	xv
Margaret Walker and Nikki Giovanni: Two Women, two Views Nikki Giovanni	3
Poetry, History, and Humanism: an Interview with Margaret Walker Charles H. Rowell	19
Black Women and Oral History: Margaret Walker Alexander Marcia Greenlee	32
Interview with Margaret Walker Claudia Tate	59
A Mississippi Writer Talks John Griffin Jones	72
Interview with Margaret Walker Ruth Campbell	92
Southern Song: An Interview with Margaret Walker Lucy M. Freibert	98
A Writer for Her People Jerry W. Ward, Jr.	113
An Interview with Margaret Walker Alexander Kay Bonetti	125
Looking Back: A Conversation with Margaret Walker Alferdteen Harrison	137
The Fusion of Ideas: An Interview with Margaret Walker Alexander Maryemma Graham	143
Margaret Walker's Reflections and Celebrations: An Interview Jacqueline Miller Carmichael	153
Spirituality, Sexuality, and Creativity: A Conversation with Margaret Walker Alexander
Dilla Buckner	172
Conversation: Margaret Walker Alexander Joanne V. Gabbin	176
Index	189

Other scholarly work on Margaret Walker: Maryemma Graham. `Conversations with Margaret Walker (2002)` *Maryemma Graham. Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker* (Georgia, 2001). Maryemma Graham. `How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature by Margaret Walker (1990).` Maryemma Graham.** `On Being Female, Black and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992 (199`

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Maryemma Graham, former Hughes Centennial Committee cochair and symposium director, is a professor of English at the University of Kansas. Founder and director of the Project on the History of Black Writing, she has published more than twenty-five journal articles and essays, and six critical studies, including edited collections on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and African American literature and pedagogy. Recipient of numerous grants and fellowships from NEH, the Ford Foundation, the Smithsonian, and the New York Public Library, she is a frequent director of international seminars and public symposia. Dr. Graham edited Fields Watered with Blood: Critical Essays on Margaret Walker (Georgia, 2001).

She is the editor of Conversations with Ralph Ellison (University Press of Mississippi, 1995). She also edited How I Wrote Jubilee and Other Essays on Life and Literature by Margaret Walker (1990), and On Being Female, Black and Free: Essays by Margaret Walker, 1932-1992 (1997); Complete Poems of Frances E.W. Harper (1988)