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EPISODE · Feb 1, 2015 · 1H 28M

ARTSPEAK presents, Stanley E. Banks, NedRa Bonds and Anna-Maria Kretzer

from Artspeak Radio · host Maria Vasquez Boyd

Stanley  E.  Banks is an  Assistant Professor  and  Artist-In-Residence  at  Avila  University since  1997.  Banks  had  his 5th  book  of  poetry,  BLUE  ISSUES,  published  in  2013  by  Naomi  Bards Press  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri.  His  other  4  books  are  BLUE  BEAT  SYNCOPATION  (2003),  ON  10th  ALLEY  WAY  (1981),  COMING  FROM  A  FUNKY  TIME  AND  PLACE (1988),  and  RHYTHM  AND  GUTS  (1992).  While  attending  Howard  University  in  Washington,  D.C.  as  a   Graduate  student  in  the  Fall  of   1980,   he  met  Sterling  Brown,  the  great  Harlem  Renaissance  poet,  and  in  the  following  year,  he  received  the  Langston  Hughes  Prize  For  Poetry.  He  has  won  Honorary  Awards   which  include  a  Proclamation  For  Achievement  in  2002  from  the  Mayor  of  Kansas  City,   Missouri,  and  for  the  entire  year  of   2002,   his  life  and  history  in  publishing  was  exhibited  at  The  Black  Archives  of   Mid-America ,  Inc.  Further,  in  1989  he  was  awarded  the  National  Endowment  for  the  Arts  Fellowship/Grant  for  his  poetry.  He  has  been  published  in  many literary magazines/journals  around  the  country. NedRa Bonds was born in Kansas City, Kansas into a family of quilters.  As an adult, she used the skills she learned as a child, to create the Quindaro Quilt, that…

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