Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez
Irudi gehiago
Bizitza
Jaiotzako izen-deiturak	Wilsonia Bonita Driver
Jaiotza	Birmingham, 1934ko irailaren 9a (90 urte)
Herrialdea	Ameriketako Estatu Batuak
Talde etnikoa	afro-amerikarra
Hezkuntza
Heziketa	Howard Unibertsitatea Hunter College (en)
Hizkuntzak	ingelesa
Jarduerak
Jarduerak	antzerkigilea, poeta, haur literaturaren idazlea, bakearen aldeko aktibista, idazlea, gidoilaria, maisu/maistra, militante politikoa, anthologist (en) eta editorea
Parte-hartzailea Furious Flower Conference (1st: 1994) (en) Furious Flower Conference (2nd: 2004) (en) Furious Flower Conference (3rd: 2014) (en)
Lantokia(k)	Filadelfia
Enplegatzailea(k)	Temple University (en) Pittsburgheko Unibertsitatea
Jasotako sariak	ikusi American Book Awards  (1985) Langston Hughes Medal  (1999) Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards  (2019) Shelley Memorial Award  (2016) Pew Fellowship in the Arts  (1993) honorary degree from Spelman College  (2019)
Kidetza	Alpha Kappa Alpha
soniasanchez.net

Sonia Sanchez (jaiotza-izena Wilsonia Benita Driver; 1934ko irailaren 9a) poeta, narraziogile, saiakeragile, antzergi-egile eta haur-literaturako liburuen egile afroamerikarra da. Batez ere, Beltzen Artearen Mugimenduarekin lotu ohi da. Hainbat poesia-liburu, narrazio labur, saiakera kritiko, antzezlan eta haurrei zuzendutako literatura-lan idatzi ditu. 1993an Arteetako Pew Fellowships saria eman zioten. 2001ean, berriz, Robert Frost Domina eman zioten bere poesia-lanarengatik (AEBetan, poesiako saririk garrantzitsuenetakoa). Sonia Sanchezek eragina izan du beste emakume poeta afroamerikar batzuengan; esate batera, Krista Franklin poetarengan.

Lanak

Poesia

• Homecoming (1969)
• We a Baddddd People (1970)
• Love Poems (1973)
• A Blues Book for a Blue Black Magic Woman (1974)
• Autumn Blues
• Continuous Fire: A Collection of Poetry
• Shake Down Memory: A Collection of Political Essays and Speeches
• It's a New Day: Poems for Young Brothas and Sistuhs (1971)
• Homegirls and Handgrenades (1985)
• Under a Soprano Sky (1987)
• I've Been a Woman: New and Selected Poems (1985)
• Wounded in the House of a Friend (1995)
• Does Your House have Lions (1997)
• Like the Singing Coming Off of Drums (1998)
• Shake Loose My Skin (2000)
• Ash (2001)
• Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (2001)
• Morning Haiku (2010)

Antzerki-lanak

• Black Cats and Uneasy Landings
• I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't (1982)
• The Bronx is Next (1970)
• Sista Son/Ji (1972)
• Uh Huh, But How Do It Free Us? (1975)
• Malcolm Man/Don't Live Here No More (1979)
• I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays (Duke University Press, 2010)

Narrazio laburren bilduma

• A Sound Investment and Other Stories

Haur-literatura

• It's a New Day (1971)
• A Sound Investment
• The Adventures of Fat Head, Small Head, and Square Head (1973)

Antologiak

• We Be Word Sorcerers: 25 Stories by Black Americans (1974)
• 360 Degrees of Blackness Coming at Ya!
• Robert Bly, David Lehman, eds. (1999) The Best American Poetry, 1999
• Junot Díaz, ed. (2001). "A Poem for My Father". The Beacon Best of 2001: Great Writing by Women and Men of All Colors and Cultures
• Arnold Rampersad, Hilary Herbold, eds. (2006). "answer to yo / question of am i not yo / woman even if you went on shit again". The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry

Diskografia

• A Sun Lady for All Seasons Reads Her Poetry (Folkways Records, 1971)
• Every Tone a Testimony (Smithsonian Folkways, 2001)

Kanpo estekak

• Official website
• Academy of American Poets
• Sonia Sanchez Biography at Voices from the Gap
• Joyce Joyce and John Reilly, Approaches to teaching Sonia Sanchez's poetry
• Sonia Sanchez Biography at Speak Out
• Sonia Sanchez article at the Heath Anthology of American Literature
• Sonia Sanchez's oral history video excerpts at The National Visionary Leadership Project

• Datuak: Q3307926
• Multimedia: Sonia Sanchez / Q3307926