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Glossary: Author Biographies
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Patterson, Raymond R. | ||
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Raymond Patterson was an African American
poet, writer, and professor from Harlem, New York. Patterson
received his BA from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and his
Masters degree in English from New York University He has since
become a prolific poet, whose work is highly anthologized. He is
the author of 26 Ways of Looking
at a Black Man and Other Poems as well as Elemental Blues, a book-length poem on
the life of the enslaved African poet Phyllis Wheatley. His work
often explored the roles of African Americans in the arts and
society With his wife, Patterson created Black Poets Reading, a
nonprofit speakers’ bureau. In 1968 he joined the faculty of New
York City College, where he founded the Langston Hughes
Festival, which he directed from 1973 to 1993. Patterson died in
2001 at the age of 71. |