Quraysh Ali Lansana

Author of twenty books in poetry, nonfiction and children’s literature; journalist teaching, University of Tulsa and Oklahoma State University-Tulsa; executive producer, KOSU/NPR’s Focus: Black Oklahoma.

Author of twenty books in poetry, nonfiction and children’s literature. His collections of poems include; “Opal’s Greenwood Oasis, the skin of dreams: new and collected poems, 1995-2018”  “The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop” and “The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwendolyn Brooks as Conscience & Change Agent” An Emmy Award and duPont-Columbia Award winning journalist he teaches at the University of Tulsa and Oklahoma State University-Tulsa. Executive producer of KOSU/NPR’s Focus: Black Oklahoma.

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Black writers and poets Quraysh Ali Lansana and Ishion Hutchinson share how their poetry is shaped by history, tradition, and the unearthing of forgotten histories.

Black poetry and the unearthing of forgotten histories

Black writers and poets Quraysh Ali Lansana and Ishion Hutchinson share how their poetry is shaped by history, tradition, and the unearthing of forgotten histories.

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