Books by Eugene Redmond

Sides of the River (1969)  /  Sentry of the Four Golden Pillars (1970) / River of Bones and Flesh and Blood (1971) / Songs from an Afro/Phone (1972)

 In a Time of Rain & Desire (1973) / Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (2003)

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AVAILABLE SUMMER 2007!

A CONFLUENCE OF LITERARY, CULTURAL & VISION ARTS

      Spring / Summer / Fall 2007, Volume 15, ISBN: 1-880748-63-0

‘Kwansabas for Maya Angelou & Quincy Troupe’. Plus . . . Interviews with Angelou, Troupe & Michael Datcher … ‘Drumming a Continent’s Dreams’: A Selection of African Writings … ‘Art & Activism in  Sacramento/Northern California’ … Mari Evans: A Poetic Mosaic

CONTRIBUTORS

Opal Palmer Adisa, Alex Agyei-Agyiri, Maya Angelou, Deveran Ashe, Brian Auerbach, Gabeba Baderoon, Amiri Baraka, Carol Beane, Lisa Bertaccini, Odessa Bethea, Charles Curtis Blackwell, Joseph Bruchac, Raena Camacho, Lorraine Caputo, Gladys Justin Carr, O.J. Cartaya, Karl Carter, Adrian Castro, Michael Castro, Marie A. Celestin, Mary Chatfield, Syl Cheney-Coker, Chirikure Chirikure, Lisa Combrinck, Julia Connor, William Copeland, Jumaane Cowan, Roscoe Crenshaw, Michael Datcher, Diane Shipley DeCillis, Michael Deragon, Carlos Raul Dufflar, Chris Dyer, Corri Elizabeth, Mari Evans, Sherman L. Fowler, Laverne Frith, Kathryn Gahl, Bailey Harrell, Reginald M. Harris, Jr., Be Davison Herrera, Christienne L. Hinz, Jack Hirschman, Everett Hoagland, Imelda Hunt, Leah Hunter, Tade Ipadeola, Valjeanne Jeffers-Thompson, Emily L. Johnson, Danson Kahyana, Rick Kearns, Susan Kiguli, Lois Klein, April Lavadia, Le Pham Le, Vivian Lawry, Karen Lewis, Reginald Lockett, Mohamed Magani, Angel L. Martínez, Maria Massey, Ann McGovern, Joseph McNair, Patricia Merritt, Tureeda Mikell, Adam David Miller, David Mills, Gail Mitchell, Dorothea M. Moore, Lenard D. Moore, Beverley Nambozo, Malika Ndlovu, Uche Nduka, Dahveed Nelson, John Allen Newcomb, Mali Newman, Martina Nicholson, B.Z. Niditch, Obi Nwakanma, Tolu Ogunlesi, Dike Okoro, Remy Oriaku, Fred Ostrander, Debra A. Powell-Wright, Remi Raji, Netia T. Raye, Eugene B. Redmond, Glennis Redmond, Katherine Ridall, Marilyn Ringer, Danny Romero,  Darlene Roy, Amadou Lamine Sall, David Sapp, Kadija Sesay, Jane Stuart, Jennifer K. Sweeney, Charles Thomas, Dinizulu Gene Tinnie, Quincy Troupe, Sumaila Isah Umaisha, Jerry Ward, Ashley L. Williams, Diana Woodcock

To obtain your copy of Volume 15 of Drumvoices Revue, please fill out the form below and send check or money order for $10.00 (plus $2 shipping and handling) to Editor,  Drumvoices Revue, Dept. of English, Box 1431, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 62026-1431. Tel: (618) 650-3991 E-mail: eredmon@siue.edu.

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DRUMVOICES REVUE is published annually (with occasional supplemental issues) by the English Department of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in collaboration with the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club of East St. Louis (P.O. Box 6165), Illinois 62202. Occasional monographs, chapbooks, pamphlets and special-focus projects are also published in the Drumvoices Supplement Series. Example: Break Word with the World: A Commemorative Collection of Poems / Anecdotes / Commentaries.S ubscriptions: $10 per year. Drumvoices Revue is indexed in the American Humanities Index.

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EBR Writers Club* Offers Pre-Kwanzaa (Free)
Inner-Attainment In The ‘Soular System’/2007 (Contact: 618 650-3991)
 
Tuesday, December 18th, 6:00 p.m.

“KWANZAA: (Continuing) A 40th Anniversary (Community) Celebration”
 
Location: Multipurpose Room, Building D
SIUE/East St. Louis Higher Education Center
601 J. R. Thompson Drive
East St. Louis, Illinois 62202
Featuring:
 
Sunshine & The East St. Louis Community Performance Ensemble
 SIUE-East St. Louis Center for the Performing Arts (Theo Jamison, Director)
 
&
 
“Kwansaba Candle-Lighting Ritual” w/Soular Systems Ensemble:

Roscoe Crenshaw (“Kujichagulia”/ Self-Determination)
Angela Dates-Ali (“Kuumba” Creativity)
Charlois Lumpkin(“Ujamaa”/ Cooperative Economics)
Patricia Merritt (“Nia”/ Purpose)
Darlene Roy (“Ujima”/ Collective Work & Responsibility)
Dr. Lena Weathers (“Imani”/Faith)
Eugene B. Redmond (“Umoja”/Unity)
 
Plus “Open Mic” . . . gifts, books, art & fabric bazaar . . .
 
*The Writers Club co-publishes “Drumvoices Revue” with Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville. Club Trustees: Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998),
Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), Avery Brooks, Walter Mosley, Raymond Patterson (1929-2001), Barbara A. Teer, Quincy Troupe, Dr. Lena Weathers
 
Co-sponsors: SIUE, East St. Louis Cultural Revival Campaign Committee,
Drumvoices Revue, Black River Writers Press, Renaissance Literary Arts Press.

For additional information, call the
Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club at 618 650-3991 or write EBRWC at P. O. Box
6165, ESL, IL 62202.

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TO: All Media, Poets, Writers, Cultural Centers, Libraries, Schools, English Departments

FROM: Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club/SIUE English Department/Drumvoices Revue
Contact: 618 650-3991; eredmon@siue.edu; FAX: 618 650-3509

Kwansabas for Richard Wright (1908-1960) in honor of the Wright Centennial (1908-2008). Selected kwansabas (7-line poems) will be published in the Spring 2008 issue of Drumvoices. Final date for submission of the kwansabas is Nov. 1, 2007. The kwansaba, a 49-word poetic form invented during the Writers Club’s 1995workshop season (in East St. Louis), consists of seven lines of seven words each, with no word containing more than seven letters. (Think 7-7-7!) Exceptions to the seven-letter rule are proper nouns and some foreign terms. Drumvoices Revue, English Department Box 1431, SIUE, Edwardsville, IL 62026-1431. Submissions may be sent in hard copies and/or on Microsoft Word disk. For more information, call 618 650-3991, email eredmon@siue.edu  or fax 618 650-3509. Interested persons may also write EBRWC @ P.O. Box 6165, East St. Louis, IL 62202.

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WRITERS CLUB & DRUMVOICES REVUE CELEBRATE POETS:
Issue Call for Kwansabas for Maya Angelou & Quincy Troupe

East Saint Louis/Edwardsville, Illinois--For its Spring 2007 issue, Drumvoices Revue, a multicultural literary journal co-published by the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, is issuing a call for Kwansabas for Maya Angelou and Quincy Troupe. The original date for submission of the seven-line poem Nov. 1--has been extended to Jan. 1, 2007.

The kwansaba, a 49-word poetic form invented during the Writers Club’s 1995 workshop season (in East St. Louis), consists of seven lines of seven words each; each word must contain between one and seven letters. Exceptions to the seven-letter rule are proper nouns and some foreign terms. Previous issues of Drumvoices have featured kwansabas for Katherine Dunham (2004), Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez (2005), and Jayne Cortez (2006).  Following is an example of a kwansaba from Drumvoices #13:

Kwansaba submissions should be sent by Jan. 1, 2007, to Drumvoices Revue, English Department Box 1431, SIUE, Edwardsville, IL 62026-1431. Submissions should be in hard copies as well as on Microsoft Word disk. For more
information, call 618 650-3991, email eredmon@siue.edu, fax 618 650-3509, or write EBRWC @ P.O. Box 6165, East St. Louis, IL 62202.

Founded in 1986 and named after East St. Louis Poet Laureate Eugene B.Redmond, Writers Club trustees include Amiri Baraka, Angelou, Walter Mosley, Barbara Ann Teer, Quincy Troupe, Dr. Lena Weathers, and Avery Brooks. Trustees also serve on the editorial board of Drumvoices Revue. Deceased Trustees include Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998), Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), and Raymond R. Patterson (1929-2001).

The Club is currently celebrating its 20th year of twice-monthly meetings (first/third Tuesday), 6:00-8:00 p.m., in the Library (Building B) of the East St. Louis Higher Education Center, 601 J. R. Thompson Drive. Meetings are held September through May. All writers, from beginners to professionals, are welcome.

East St. Louis Plans Big Tribute to Katherine Dunham  Drumvoices Festival of Arts #2

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DrumVoices Revue

A Confluence of Literary, Cultural & Vision Arts

Spring-Summer-Fall 2006 / Volume 14, Numbers 1 & 2

& A Cortez Poetic Mosaic / Interviews with Amiri Baraka & Magdalena Gomez

“Gems’ from Trustees/Friends of EBR Writers Club / 10 Nigerian Poets + Arts/Activism in Sacramento

Eugene Redmond is Back in Ibadan, Nigeria

Contributors

Volume 14, Numbers 1 & 2

Eugene Redmond is Back in Ibadan, Nigeria

Eugene B. Redmond, professor of English Literature at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, United States of America, is in the country again two years after his last visit.

A major voice in the enduring tradition of African American Literature, Redmond is Poet Laureate of East St. Louis and is the founding editor of DrumVoices Revue, a multicultural literary magazine. With Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka and others, he has served as editor and executor of seven collections of Henry Dumas' poetry and prose.

Redmond, whose first visit to Nigeria was in 1978 when he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Lagos, was in Ibadan. in 2004 and apart from John Updike (in the 1970s), Charles Rowell and Ishmael Reed (in the late 90s), he is perhaps the other significant author that has visited Ibadan.

Aside from the interaction he had with students and staff of the Department of English, University of Ibadan, during his last visit, the 1993 American Book Award winner for the collection of poetry, The Eyes in the ceiling, also held a photo exhibition of African American writers entitled Visualizing African American Writers curated by his younger colleague, Dr. Howard Ramsby II, at the Museum of the Institute of African studies, University of Ibadan.

The poet, photographer, and musician who breezed in to town during the week is around to promote the 2005 and 2006 editions of DrumVoices Revue, which features ten Nigerian poets.

He will be hosted on Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 3;30 pm at Educare Trust Exhibition Centre, Coca Cola area, Sango-Oremeji,. Ibadan, where he will sign autographs and sell copies of the journal.

A release signed by Folorunso Moshood, programme officer of Educare Trust disclosed that the occasion would also feature performances by Educare Trust Players.

Source: Nigerian Tribune (Friday 19 May 2006)

Kwansabas for Jayne Cortez’ & A Cortez Poetic Mosaic

Interviews with Amiri Baraka & Magdalena Gomez

“Gems’ from Trustees/Friends of EBR Writers Club

10 Nigerian Poets + Arts/Activism in Sacramento

DRUMVOICES REVUE: A Confluence of Literary, Cultural & Vision Arts  Vol. 13 Spring/Summer/Fall 2005  Available Spring 2005  Honoring Amiri Baraka's 70th Birthday  & The 40th Anniversary of the Black Arts Movement  ISBN 1-880748-60-6

#1: ‘drumvoices festival of east saint love . . .’  (exploring the region’s ‘Arkansippi’ roots/routes) with The Community Performance Ensemble (Dance/Drum Troupe directed by Sylvester Sunshine Lee) & Poets of The Soular Systems Ensemble: Roscoe Crenshaw, Sherman Fowler, Janice Haskins,Sheryl Johnson, Charlois Lumpkin, Patricia Merritt, Dahveed Nelson, Darlene Roy, Alnando Sesson, Eugene B. Redmond

Sixty-Four Poems (“kwansabas”) and Three Essays honoring Amiri Baraka’s 70th Birthday and the 40th Anniversary of the Black Arts Movement—plus “black and soaring,” a B.A.M. overview with photo collages by Howard Rambsy, and a retrospective anthology of 14 Baraka poems;

Interviews with Joy Harjo & Sonia Sanchez 

Interviews with Award-Winning Poets-Activists Joy Harjo and Sonia Sanchez (who is also honored with 14 “kwansabas” and essays);

New Poets & Writers of Nigeria--Selected by Remi Raji

[Nine] New Poets & Writers of Nigeria--including Akin Adesokan, Tolu Ogunlesi, and Chika Unigwe—selected and introduced by Remi Raji

Literary Arts & Activism in Sacramento & Northern Calif.

--Selected by Odessa Bethea

Forty-One Poets, Activists, Essayists, and Fiction Writers from Sacramento/Northern California including Genoa Barrow, Charles Curtis Blackwell, David Covin, V.S. Chochezi, Leticia Del Toro, Teri Glass, Allan Gordon, Katherine Hastings, Be Davison Herrera, Ted Hornback, George Austin Jones, Ariono-jovan Labu, Diane P. Lando, Sinh Quang Le, Danny Romero, Dennis Schmitz, Hortense Simmons, Otis Scott, and Kimberly White—selected and introduced by Odessa Bethea.

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The “kwansaba,” a poetic form consisting of 49 words distributed over 7 lines, was invented in 1995 by the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club (in East St. Louis, Illinois). The Club co-publishes Drumvoices with the English Department of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. 

Members contributing “kwansabas” to Drumvoices #13 include Roscoe Crenshaw, Sandra English, Sherman L. Fowler, Christienne L. Hinz, Sheryl Johnson, Patricia Merritt, Mali Newman, Bruce Petty, Darlene Roy.  Drumvoices also features poems by Alvin Aubert of Detroit, Henry Dumas (1934-68), Jakarta-born/Chinese-American poet Li-Young Lee of Chicago, Reginald Lockett of Oakland, and Joseph McNair of Miami (who also contributes an essay on Baraka).

“Kwansabas” (and essays) honoring Baraka and Sanchez include those by more than a dozen students  from Howard University and SIUE. (HU students studied with Tony Medina.) 

“Kwansabas” also came from Spain (Nela Bureu), Pennsylvania (Frances Lee Wilson), Louisiana (Jerry Ward Jr.), California (Adrienne Cary Hurley), New Jersey (Angel L. Martinez), Indiana/Ohio (Jolivette Anderson/Anthony Zupanic), North Carolina (Lenard D. Moore/Evie Shockley), Missouri (Shirley Bradley LeFlore), Georgia (Stanley L. Raper), Texas (Van G. Garrett), New York (D. H. Melhem/Anthony Sloan), and South America (Lorraine Caputo).

The EBR Writers Club was founded in 1986. Its Trustees, some of whom also serve on the editorial board of Drumvoices, include Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Avery Brooks, Walter Mosley, Quincy Troupe, Barbara Ann Teer, and Dr. Lena Weathers.

To order Drumvoices, send a check or money order for $10.00 to Editor: DR, English Dept. Box 1431, SIUE, Edwardsville, IL 62026-1431. For more information, call: 618 650-3991.

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Akin Adesokan  Jolivette 'Djali'Anderson  Alvin Aubert  Amiri Baraka  Genoa Barrow  Odessa Bethea Patricia Biela  Charles Curtis Blackwell  Eric Borden  Derrick Weston Brown  Nela Bureu Lorraine Caputo  V.S. Chochezi 

Jabez W. Churchill  David Covin  Roscoe Crenshaw  Jason Cudahy  Risasi Dais  Valerie A. Davis  Leticia Del Toro  

Laurie Duesing  Carlos Raul Dufflar  Henry Dumas  Carole Dwinnell  Donna Emerson  Sandra English  Arthur C. Ford  Sherman L. Fowler  Mark G.  Van G. Garrett  Teri Glass   Allan Gordon  Grace Marie Grafton  Elizabeth Hanon  W. Devin Harper  Joy Harjo  Katherine Hastings  Marlene Hawthrone  Alfred Henderson II  Melanie Henderson  Be Davison Herrera  Christienne L. Hinz  Ted Hornback  Randall Horton  Diondra Humphries  Adrienne Carey Hurley  Ogaga Ifowodo 

Robin Leslie Jacobson Konahe Jernigan  Sheryl Johnson  George Austin Jones  Leslie Lorelle Jones  M. Susan Jones

Shernell Julien  William Keener   Vincent Kobelt   Ariono-jovan Labu   Lisa Tarrer Lacy    Diane P. Lando  Shirley Bradley LeFlore  Sinh Quang Le  Li-Young Lee   Karen Lewis  Reginald Lockett  Ashley Mack   MaryJo Mahoney 

Angel L. Martinez   Joseph McNair  D.H. Melhem  Patricia Merritt  Tureeda Mikell  Khiry Malik Moore  Lenard D. Moore 

Zayid Muhammad  Mali Newman  Austyn Njoku  Queen Nontsekelelo  Maik Nwosu  G. 'Ebinyo Ogbowei  Tolu Ogunlesi  Sanya Osha  Bruce Petty  Remi Raji  Howard Rambsy II  Stanley L. Raper  Eugene B. Redmond  Lori Jean Robinson  Danny Romero  Albert Rothman   Darlene Roy  Erika Sanders  Dennis Schmitz  Otis Scott  Prartho Sereno  Evie Shockley   

Hortense Simmons  Jeffrey Skoblow  Anthony Sloan  Linda Jo Smith  Elaine Starkman   Essence W. Sweat  Ron Thomas  Chika Unigwe  Jerry W. Ward Jr.   Kimberly White  Willie D. Williams  Francis Lee Wilson   Karen Wood  Molara Wood  Tony Zupanic  

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To order the 2005 edition of Drumvoices Revue, please fill out the form below and send it along with a check or money order for $10 to: Drumvoices Revue, Dept. of English, Box 1431, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, 62026-1431. Ph: (618) 650-3991; Fax: (618) 650-3509: Email: eredmon@siue.edu.

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DRUMVOICES REVUE is published in collaboration with the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club:  P.O. Box 6165, East St. Louis, IL 62202  

(Celebrating 19 years of offering "Aid and Comfort" to writers).  Service is an opportunity to do something for others and not an obligation.  

For brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by love serve one another. Galatians 5:13

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Eugene B. Redmond / Office: PH 2206 / Phone: x3991 / Email: eredmon@siue.edu M.A. Washington University / Editor: DRUMVOICES REVUE Specializations: Creative Writing, African-American and Multi-Cultural Literature. Currently a Professor of English and the editor of DRUMVOICES REVUE at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Eugene B. Redmond is an active voice in the local writing community as well as in national and international circles.

As a founder of the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club (1986) in East St. Louis, he continues to be instrumental in the lives of novice and experienced writers across the globe.

AWARDS
His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lifetime Achievement Award from Pan-African Movement USA, a Pushcart Prize: Best of Small Presses, a Tribute to an Elder from the African Poetry Theater of NYC, an American Book Award (The Eye in the Ceiling: Selected Poems, 1993), and Writing Fellowships from the California, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri and West Virginia Arts Councils.

BIOGRAPHY
A national and international lecturer, Redmond reaches worldwide audiences with his multicultural messages. In 1999, Redmond joined Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Lerone Bennett Jr., August Wilson, and Henry Dumas as an inductee into the National Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent. 

While a professor of English and Poet-in-Residence in Ethnic Studies at California State University-Sacramento (1970-85), he was named and remains Poet Laureate of East St. Louis. 

Redmond's books of poetry are Sides of the River (1969,) Sentry of the Four Golden Pillars (1970), River of Bones and Flesh and Blood (1971), Songs from an Afro/Phone (1972), Consider Loneliness As These Things, and In a Time of Rain & Desire 1973); his LP recording of poetry, Bloodlinks and Sacred Places, was released by Black River Writers in 1973. He edited Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry, A Critical History (1976) and Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (2003)

He taught at the Experiment in Higher Education (Southern Illinois University-East St. Louis) where his colleagues included Henry Dumas, Joyce Ladner, and Katherine Dunham. He has authored six volumes of poetry and has edited many more. 

Since 1968 when he became literary executor of the Dumas estate, Redmond has edited several volumes of prose and poetry by the late writer.

Source: http://www.siue.edu/ENGLISH/Directory/redmond.html

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posted 5/29/05