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2. Etheridge Knight Festival Etheridge Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1931. http://aalbc.com/events/EKFestival.htm

Events Home AALBC Home Buy Any Book Etheridge Knight Inc. P.O. Box 18043 Indianapolis, IN 46218 Phone (317) 396-1529.Fax (317) 925-1481 E-mail EKFestival@aol.com The 11th Annual Etheridge Knight Festival of the Arts 2002 Flyer Etheridge Knight Inc. is designed to promote the arts and the appreciation of the arts for youths, youths at risk, adults, seniors, incarcerated individuals and those underserved in the arts programming in the city. E.K. Inc. provides educational programs that foster an appreciation of the arts through the oral tradition for people of all cultures and ages. The Etheridge Knight Festival of the Arts pays tribute to the arts community and the Legacy of the late Indianapolis poet Etheridge Knight. Who is Etheridge Knight? Indianapolis-Pulitzer-nominated poet and former Indianapolis resident Etheridge is author of five books of poetry, Knight was an advocate of poetry as an oral art form and is regarded as one of the nations finest performers of poetry. He received numerous awards and honors for his ability to bring poetry to life, including the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, the Shelly Award from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Knight was born in 1931 in Corinth, Mississippi, the third of seven children, and served in the Korean War. During treatment for war-related injuries he became addicted to drugs and was subsequently arrested and sentenced for armed robbery. He served eight years in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City.

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Chapter 45: Etheridge Knight Etheridge Knight Etheridge Knight Born in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1931, Etheridge Knight was one of seven children in a poor family, and completed only a ninth-grade education. He spent his adolescent years in menial jobs and in the predominantly black male environments of pool halls, bars, and juke joints. There he honed his skills in verbal performance, mastering the art of "black toasts" or "telling toasts," long narrative poems from the oral tradition which are performed from memory and with spirit. While his rough adolescent environment encouraged Knight's poetic experience, it also introduced him to drugs. He became addicted at an early age and would never fully free himself of the addiction. Korean War , he suffered a shrapnel wound, and his addiction to narcotics increased when he was treated with morphine. Arrested in 1960 in Indianapolis for stealing a purse to support his drug habit, he served an eight-year prison sentence. Convinced his prison sentence was unjustly long and racially-motivated, Knight wrote poetry to curb his anger. He was encouraged by the prominent poet Gwendolyn Brooks , and by Dudley Randall, whose new Broadside Press published Knight's first collection, Poems from Prison

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Etheridge Knight The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project of Starkville High School Major Works Biography of Etheridge Knight by Mitchell Evans, Jr. (SHS) Timeline on Etheridge Knight by Mitchell Evans, Jr. Related Web Sites Bibliography Major Works Poems from Prison, 1968 The Idea of Ancestry, 1968 2 Poems for Black Relocation Center, 1968 For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide, 1972 A Poem for Brother Man, 1972 Belly Song and Other Poems, 1973 Born of a Woman: New and Selected Poems, 1980 The Essential Etheridge Knight, 1986 Etheridge Knight: A Biography by Mitchell Evans, Jr. (SHS) Etheridge Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi. He was one of seven children born to a poor rural family. Knight dropped out of school at the age of fourteen (Magill 419). but his "education in the uses and joys of language continued as he explored the world of juke joints, pool halls and underground poker games" (www.poets.com). When he become seventeen, he joined the army as a medical technical and saw active service in Korea, where he received a scrapnel wound. Treatment for that wound increased his addiction to narcotics. In 1960, he was a robber, and one day he was arrested for snatching an elderly white woman's purse (Magill 419). He was sentenced to ten to twenty years in the state penitentiary (Lumpkin, 203). In jail, he started reading

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6. Etheridge Knight Etheridge Knight Click name to order Knight's books. The Idea of Ancestry.From The Essential Etheridge Knight by Etheridge Knight © 1986. http://aalbc.com/authors/etheridg.htm

AALBC Home Author Index Back Author Home ... Buy Any Book Etheridge Knight Click name to order Knight's books Biography Source: The Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/poets/lit/POET/eknight.htm Etheridge Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1931. Although he dropped out of school at age fourteen, his education in the uses and joys of language continued as he explored the world of juke joints, pool halls, and underground poker games. He began to master the art of the toast, a form of long, improvised, humorous poetry that dates back to the 19th century and has its roots in African storytelling. From 1947 to 1951, Knight served in the U.S. Army in Korea, and returning with a shrapnel wound that caused him to fall deeper into a drug addiction that had begun in his youth. In 1960 he was arrested for robbery and sentenced to eight years in the Indiana State Prison. During this time he began writing poetry, and he corresponded with and received visits from such established African American literary figures as Dudley Randall and Gwendolyn Brooks Poems from Prison The book was a success, and Knight soon joined such poets as

7. Knight, The Essential Etheridge Knight Home. Order Form. The Essential Etheridge knight etheridge Knight Winnerof the 1987 American Book Award. Etheridge Knight is a foremost http://www.pitt.edu/~press/1986/knight.html

128 pp. 5 1/2 x 8 Home Order Form The Essential Etheridge Knight Etheridge Knight Winner of the 1987 American Book Award "Etheridge Knight is a foremost American poet in the black oral tradition, and can move from pathos and a near-tragic vision of the destructiveness of imprisonment to tenderness and a lusty, incisive wit. . . . The work as a whole bears testimony anew to his authentic 'blues' voice, deep feeling, and concern for communication between the races." -Library Journal "To read Knight is not to escape from or to transfigure America. It really isn't a 'comfortable' experience. He is too aware of the violent spaces between races and individuals to attempt grandiloquescence. Equally he is too screwed into the mundane to attempt sleight of hand tricks. His poetry is clarified on the oilstone of experience. The sad, funky yet celebrative sound of his 'blues' is experience being hined on the quartz grains of a grindstone." -The Iowa Review "Wonderful in its ability to combine love and anger, irony and sweetness. Knight is a street-smart poet with an ear for the Black American idiom and experience, and his poems reflect a life lived largely at the cutting edge edge of that experience: poverty, racism, prison, drug addiction, and rehabilitation. Whether in the form of incantatory blues, narrative poems, or his distinctly individual urban haiku, Knight's is a compelling voice."

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12. Etheridge Knight - The Academy Of American Poets An Academy of American Poets poetry exhibit, including a brief biography and an audio recording of the poet reading one of his poems. http://www.poets.org/LIT/poet/eknigfst.htm

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14. Etheridge Knight Papers, MSS-016 The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections The University of Toledo etheridge knight Papers, 19641995 Size 4 linear feet of Toledo Libraries purchased these papers from etheridge knight in 1978 and subsequent purchases have been made http://www.cl.utoledo.edu/canaday/mssguide/mss-016.html

The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections The University of Toledo Etheridge Knight Papers, 1964-1995 MSS-016 Size: 4 linear feet Provenance: The University of Toledo Libraries purchased these papers from Etheridge Knight in 1978 and subsequent purchases have been made since that time from both Mr. Knight and Mary McAnally. Dr. Melba J. Boyd of Wayne State University donated a Dudley Randall videotape in 1996. Access: open Related Collections: John Perotti Papers, MSS-132 The literary rights to this collection are assumed to rest with the person(s) responsible for the production of the particular items within the collection, or with their heirs or assigns. Researchers bear full legal responsiblity for the acquisition to publish from any part of said collection per Title 17, United States Code . The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections may reserve the right to intervene as intermediary at its own discretion. Completed by: Barbara Shirk, November, 1987 Biographical Sketch Etheridge Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi on April 19, 1931. He was the son of Etheridge "BuShie" and Belzora Cozart Knight. He grew up in Paducah, Kentucky with four sisters and two brothers. He quit school after the eighth grade and spent his teenage years learning various toasts (long narrative poems in rhyming couplets) from men in the streets, poolrooms, and bars. He was physically abused by his father and ran away from home many times; but, by the age of 17, he left home for good. He joined the army in 1947 and served until 1951. By 1949, his family was living in Indianapolis, Indiana. While in the army, he was sent to Korea where he saw active duty as a medical technician and where he suffered a "psyche/wound" and subsequently became hooked on drugs.

15. MWP: Etheridge Knight (1931-1991) Information about writer etheridge knight, including a biographical and criticalarticle, a list of published works, and other information resources. http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/knight_etheridge/

Go to Publications Bibliography Internet Resources Home ... Authors Etheridge Knight This article is not yet available. Please try again later. Add Information to this page Mississippi Writers Page Links About This Site New Book Info Literary Landmarks Mississippi Literary History ... SEARCH THE MISSISSIPPI WRITERS PAGE Ole Miss Links UM Home Page English Department Center for the Study of Southern Culture ... The University of Mississippi Foundation Articles Now Available COMPLETE LIST OF WRITERS Alexander, Margaret Walker (1915-1998) Ambrose, Stephen E. (1936-2002) Armistead, John (1941- ) Autry, James A. (1933- ) Bahr, Howard (1946- ) Bailey, Ben E. (1932- ) Baldwin, Joseph Glover (1815-1864) Barr, Nevada (1952- ) Barthelme, Frederick (1943- ) Barthelme, Steve (1947- ) Bass, Rick (1958- ) Berry, D. C. (1942- ) Black, Patti Carr (1934- ) Bonner, Katherine Sherwood (1849-1883) Brown, Larry (1951- ) Burnham, Carl Campbell, Will D. (1924- ) Capers, Charlotte (1913-1996) Carsley, Anne (1935- )

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Knight, Etheridge (b. April 19, 1931, Corinth, Miss., U.S.d. March 10, 1991, Indianapolis, Ind.), African-American poet who emerged as a robust voice of the black aesthetic movement with his first volume of verse, Poems from Prison (1968). His poetry combined the energy and bravado of African-American "toasts" (long narrative poems that were recited in a mixture of street slang, specialized argot, and obscenities) with a concern for freedom from oppression. Knight grew up in Paducah, Ky., dropped out of high school, became addicted to drugs, and joined the U.S. Army, serving as a medical technician in the Korean War. Arrested for robbery in 1960, Knight was imprisoned for eight yearsan experience that he recounted in verse in Poems from Prison and in prose in the anthology Black Voices from Prison (1970; originally published two years earlier in Italian as Voce negre dal carcere After his release from prison, Knight taught at various universities and contributed to several magazines, working for two years as an editor of Motive and as a contributing editor of New Letters (1974). He experimented with rhythmic forms of punctuation in

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19. Poetry Center - Knight, Etheridge - 09/26/74 Reader knight, etheridge. Accession Number 67. Date 09/26/74. Length 36 minutes.Tape Quality good. Collection Poetry Center. Ethnicity African American. http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/newcatalog/723.htm

Reader: Knight, Etheridge Accession Number - 67 Date: Length: 36 minutes Tape Quality: good Collection: Poetry Center Ethnicity: African American Language: English Use Policy: available Content: "Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane," "He Sees Through Stone," "For Freckle-Faced Gerald," "The Warden Said to Me the Other Day," "Rehabilitation and Treatment," "Elu," "The Talking Drum," "A Blues...," "Upon Your Leaving, for Sonia," "Feeling Fucked Up," "Belly Song," "The Bones of My Father," and "Dark Prophecy: I Sing Of Shine." Mariah, Paul (Intro.) Lorde, Audre (Co-reader) Comments or Questions Search Catalog

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