Sonia Sanchez
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Poet Sonia Sanchez wins $100,000 prize - The Washington Post
Poet and author Sonia Sanchez has won a $100000 lifetime achievement prize.
Sonia Sanchez documentary gets TV debut
BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez, a documentary about the academic and activist who was also Philadelphia's first poet laureate, will make its national television ...
Poet, activist, icon Sonia Sanchez: still "BaddDDD" As Ever ...
The documentary, BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez, premiering Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at 8 p.m. EST on the World Channel's critically acclaimed series America ...
Poet-activist Sonia Sanchez subject of new documentary | The ...
NEW YORK (AP) — When a team of documentary makers first suggested a movie about her life, Sonia Sanchez resisted. "We come from that generation of ...
Books by Sonia Sanchez
“Collected Poems” (2022)
Collected Poems
“Homegirls and Handgrenades” (2015)
“Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty.”—Isabel AllendeA reprint of Sonia Sanchez’s award-winning collection, which contains some of her seminal work. Winner of the American Book Award.Sonia Sanchez is a poet, activist, and scholar and one of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement. She is the author of sixteen books and lives in Philadelphia.
“Morning Haiku” (2010)
“Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems (Bluestreak)” (2000)
“Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems (Bluestreak)” (1999)
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