An Evening with Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti - Nov. 19, 2025

Poetry Writing Workshop with Dr. Madhubuti - Nov. 20, 2025

Email for more information and to register: dslucas52@gmail.com

Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti, poet, author, publisher, and educator, is regarded as an architect of the Black Arts Movement and is founder and publisher of Chicago's Third World Press. Third World Press celebrated its 55th anniversary in September of 2022.

Madhubuti has published more than 36 books, including Think Black (1967); Black Pride (1968); Don’t Cry, Scream (1969); and We Walk the Way of the New World (1970). The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities have recognized his poetry, and he has won the American Book Award, an Illinois Arts Council Award, the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Prize in poetry for Liberation Narratives (2009). His latest book, Taught By Women: Poems as Resistance Language, New and Selected (2020), pays homage to the women who influenced him. Madhubuti is a recipient of the 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

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