A conversation
with sonia sanchez
Sonia Sanchez is a poet, mother, activist, professor and international lecturer on
black culture and literature, women’s liberation, peace and racial justice. She’s a
contributing editor to Black Scholar and the Journal of African Studies and author of
more than 16 books. Her book Homegirls and Handgrenades won the 1985 American
Book Award and Does Your House Have Lions? was named a finalist for the National
Book Critics Circle Award. Her poetry earned her the Langston Hughes
Poetry Award in 1999 as well as the 2001 Robert Frost Medal from the
Poetry Society of America.
Among her other honors include being named a Ford Freedman
Scholar from the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American
History; the Lucretia Mott Award from the National Endowment
for the Arts in 1984; the Outstanding Arts Award from the
Pennsylvania Coalition of 100 Black Women; the Community
Service Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators;
the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Humanities in 1988; the
Peace and Freedom Award from the Women International League
for Peace and Freedom in 1989; and a Pew
Fellowship in the Arts in 1992.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30
7:00 P.M.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
XAVIER UNIVERSITY
CONATON BOARD ROOM
SCHMIDT HALL