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Karl Shapiro’s “The Poet Who Writes in Negro” article on Tolson is here:





The Poet Who Writes in ‘Negro’:

Down With ‘The Tradition’: Decolonization of American Literature

The poet & educator Sarah Webster Fabio (1928-1979) famously responded to Shapiro with an essay of her own entitled



Who Speaks Negro?” A Poet’s Reply to Karl Shapiro


in the December 1966 issue of the Negro Digest.
Fabio was a leader in both the Black Studies and Black Arts movements.