Sarah Webster Fabio - A Poet's Reply to Karl Shapiro

from

Negro Digest

Dec 1966

via googlebooks

Sarah Webster Fabio

Who Speaks Negro?

A Poet’s Reply to Karl Shapiro

EDITOR’S NOTE:

The poet & educator Sarah Webster Fabio (1928-1979) famously responded to Karl Shapiro’s essay on Mel Tolson

The Poet Who Writes in ‘Negro’: Down With ‘The Tradition’: Decolonization of American Literature
in the October 1965 issue of the Negro Digest. Fabio was a leader in both the Black Studies and Black Arts movements.

Selections of Fabio’s performance

poetry can be found on youtube

by clicking the album covers