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About Broadside PressTM
For over four decades Broadside Press has promoted the written word as a vital art form intimately related to self-determination, and used the publishing of literature as a vehicle for building communities and promoting cultural critique. Founded in 1965 by Dudley Randall, a librarian by profession and a poet whose expression of human compassion is unparalleled by mainstream publishers. Broadside Press Board Members are: Chris Rutherford, Dr. Gloria Aneb House, Aurora Harris, Uri Heru House, Roberta Rutherford, and Albert M. Ward. From 2007 to present time, Broadside Press members and the community are actively participating in our Broadside Press Institute of Cultural Studies summer programs at U of D-Mercy. Board members have conducted workshops about our Different Image Legacy Poets; past and current concerns and conditions that African American males face; historical African American leaders as part of our Leadership workshops; the impact of the HIP HOP movement; and our diasporic connection to poets and writers in other countries. Our Board Members have also successfuly worked with residents of Idlewild, Michigan along with the State of Michigan regarding the historical land marking of Idlewild, MI (in Yates Township), it's Public library, notable homes, and other sites; the co-sponsorship of the landmarking ceremonies; and our first poets and writers conference that took place in August 2010. Every 3rd Sunday of the month from 3pm-6pm, The Broadside Press Poets Theatre features poets and workshops. The poetry readings take place at The University of Detroit-Mercy in the Grounds Coffee House located in lower level of the Student Union Building. Enter at the Livernois entrance, guest parking available. Call Aurora Harris if you would like to be a featured reader 313.673.6313 of email aurora917@gmail.com. |
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| Our founder Dudley Randall, achieved national and international prominence along with Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez Etheridge Knight and Haki Madhubuti. Broadside Press also became the publisher of choice for Pulitzer Prize winners Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden and many other poets of Randall’s generation. In addition, Randall published works of literary criticism by prominent black scholars, and served as the U.S. distributor of books by writers based in other areas of the African diaspora. | ||||
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In 1981 Randall was named the first poet laureate of the city of Detroit and in 2001 the University of Detroit Mercy McNichols Campus Library where he served as a reference librarian for many years was awarded a Friends of the Library USA (FOLUSA) National literary Landmark designation in his honor. This year, the Library of Michigan selected Broadside’s most recent publication (with the University of Detroit-Mercy), A Different Image: The Legacy of Broadside Press, as one of the 20 Notable Books of Michigan for 2005. |
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The year 2005 marked Broadside’s 40th Anniversary as one of the oldest operating Black presses in the United States. Broadside Press has served the Detroit metropolitan community by offering a wide variety of programs and events that foster the creation and enjoyment of literature. Broadside’s current programming includes the monthly Broadside Poets Theatre, which provides a setting for young poets to cultivate their talents; and the Young Writers Institute for Teens, sponsored in partnership with the YMCA. For ten years, our Poet-in-Resident Program, a collaboration with the Detroit Public Library, placed 25 of the area’s best poets in local libraries, rehabilitation sites, senior and juvenile centers to coach children and adults as they pursued their creative writing aspirations. Through such programs, Broadside Press has enhanced the lives of thousands of Detroit metro area residents of all ages and ethnicities. | ||
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Our mission continues: To identify, cultivate, and promote the talents of a large cadre of writers and to foster within our community a passion for African American literature and culture. Since its inception, Broadside Press has been rooted in the Detroit community, but devoted to developing the talents of writers throughout the African diaspora. In recognition of its successful efforts, many individuals, community organizations, and funding agencies have supported its programs over the years, making it possible for Broadside Press to continue to play its extraordinary role in the world of literary production. | ||
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Broadside PressTM P.O. Box 2011 Detroit, MI 48202
Secretary 313.673.6313 Voice Mail • 313.586.4577
aurora917@gmail.com • words@broadsidepress.org • myspace.com/broadsidepress
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A Different Image: The Legacy of Broadside Press
A retrospective study of major Broadside poets, Brooks, Knight, Lorde,
Madbubuti, Randall, and Sanchez, with accompanying audio CD. This title
has been selected by the Library of Michigan as one of Michigan’s
Notable Books of 2005.
Poet in the House!
A collection
of poems by the poets and participants in the Poet-In-Residence program
of Broadside Press and the Detroit Public Library; representing ten
years of collaboration.
...About Love Sometimes... The Poetry of Soul audio CD by Albert M. Ward
Featuring poet and collaborator Gloria Aneb House, with jazz masters Kenn Coxx, Donald Walden, Donovan Johnson, Michael Harrington and Leroy Hyter. To order, go to http://www.spokenuniverse.com
Upcoming New Release: Solitude Of Five Black Moons: Selected poems 1995-2009 by Aurora Harris
James A Emanuel
Jazz from the Haiku King
A few of these poems have appeared in American journals as well as European Journals.
1999 ISBN: 0-940713-4-4 $8.50
Bill Harris
Riffs & Coda
1990 ISBN: 0-940713-12-8 $15.00
Hilda Vest
Sorrow’s End
The editor of Broadside Press takes to the pen with poems that herald black men and applaud womanhood.
1993 ISBN: 0-940713-09-8 $8.00
Edited by Irene Rosemond
Reflections: An Oral History of Detroit
Personal accounts of Detroit during its era of prosperity and rituals.
1992 ISBN: 0-940713-08-X $10.00
Sharon Smith-Knight
Wine Sip & Others Delicious Poems
Though and tender poems of love. Title poem was featured in December 1993 edition of Essence Magazine.
1989 ISBN: 0-940713-06-3 $7.00
Aneb Kgositsile (Gloria House)
RainRituals
Poems of love and revolution. Featured in Essence Magazine.
1989 ISBN: 0-940713-05-5 $7.00
Albert Ward
Patches on Mainstreet
Patches, a metaphor for Detroit, survives the best and worst of times.
1989 ISBN: 0-940713-02-0 $7.00
Alvin Aubert
Against the Blues
1972 ISBN: 0-910296-73-1 Please call for pricing and availability.
Leaonead Baily
Broadside Authors and Artists
1974 ISBN: 0-910296-25-1 $9.95
Aneb Kgositsile (Gloria House)
Blood River
1983 $5.00
Bill Odarty
A Safari of African Cooking
1971 ISBN: 0-910296-63-4 $12.00
Sterling Plumpp
Clinton
1976 ISBN: 0-910296-43-X Please call for pricing and availability.
Frenchy Hodges
Black Wisdom
1971 ISBN: 0-910296-40-5 Please call for pricing and availability.
Celes Tisdale
Betcha Ain’t: Poems from Attica
1974 ISBN: 0-910296-19-7 Please call for pricing and availability.
Lyn Levy
Singing Sadness
1972 ISBN: 0-91029671-5 Please call for pricing and availability.
Margaret Danner
Impressions of African Art Forms
ISBN: 0-910296-13-8 Please call for pricing and availability.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Family Pictures
1970 ISBN: 0-910296-43-x Please call for pricing and availability.
Beckonings
1975 ISBN: 0-910296-37-5 Please call for pricing and availability.
Reports from Part 1
1972 ISBN: 0-910296-82-0 $22.00 (hardbound)
Sterling Brown
Last Ride of Wild Bill
1975 ISBN: 0-910216-02-2 Please call for pricing and availability.
Etheridge Knight
Poems from Prison
1968 ISBN: 0-910296-15-4 Please call for pricing and availability.
Belly Song
1973 ISBN: 0-910296-88-X Please call for pricing and availability.
Haki Madhubuti (Don L Lee)
Think Black
1969 ISBN: 0-910296-03-0 Please call for pricing and availability.
We Walk the Way of the New World
1970 ISBN: 0-910296-26-X (paper)
(hardbound) Please call for pricing and availability.
Audre Lorde
From a Land Where Other People Live
1973 ISBN: 0-910296-97-9 Please call for pricing and availability.
Dudley Randall
Cities Burning (Features “Ballad of Birmingham”)
1966 ISBN: 0-910296-10-3 Please call for pricing and availability.
Love You
1970 ISBN: 0-910296-64-2 Please call for pricing and availability.
Homage to Hoyt Fuller (D. Randall)
Essays poems and interviews from Negro Digest/Black world Hoyt fuller, Editor.
1984 ISBN: 0-910296-24-2 (paper) $15.00
ISBN: 0-910296-22-7 (hardbound) $22.00
Sonia Sanchez
Homecoming
1969 ISBN: 0-910296-05-7 Please call for pricing and availability.
Margaret Walker
October Journey
1973 ISBN:0-910296-96-0 Please call for pricing and availability.
Prophets for a New Day
1970 ISBN: 0-910296-21-9 Please call for pricing and availability.
William Waring Cuney
Storefront Church
1973 Please call for pricing and availability..
James W. Thompson (Abba Eletha)
First Fire: Poems 1957-1960
1970 LCN: 79-1125111 Please call for pricing and availability.
Addison Gayle, Jr.
Claude Mckay; The Black Poet at War #2
1972 ISBN: 0-910296-76-6 Please call for pricing and availability.
Houston Baker
*A Many Colored Coat of Dreams: The Poetry of Countee Cullen #4
1974 ISBN: 0-910296-36-7 Please call for pricing and availability.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Aloneness
“Sometimes Aloneness is delicious,” Ms. Brooks tells her young audience. Illustrations by Leroy Foster
1971 ISBN: 910296-55-3 Please call for pricing and availability.
Sonia Sanchez
It’s a New Day
Poems of pride written especially for “young brothas and sistuhs”
1971 ISBN:0-910296-60-X Please call for pricing and availability.
Michele Gibbs
Island Images (Coloring Book)
An artful rendition of Caribbean life.
1989 ISBN: 0-940713-60-X Please call for pricing and availability.
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