Tyehimba Jess
Tyehimba Jess’s first book of poetry, leadbelly (Verse Press, 2005), is a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. He won the 2001 Gwendolyn Brooks Open Mic Poetry Award, an Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship in Poetry for 2000 - 2001, and the 2001 Chicago Sun-Times Poetry Award. He was on the 2000 and 2001 Chicago Green Mill Slam teams, received a 2005 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was a 2004-05 Winter Writing Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. A proud Cave Canem alumnus, and is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Jess's fiction and poetry have appeared in Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence (Penguin Books, 1996), Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry (Manic D Press, 2000), Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Three Rivers Press, 2001), Beyond The Frontier: African American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century (Black Classic Press, 2002), Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press, 2002), and Dark Matter 2: Reading the Bones (Aspect Press, 2004). His first non-fiction book, African American Pride: Celebrating our Achievements, Contributions, and Legacy (Citadel Press, 2003), was published in December 2003.
Posted on February 16, 2005 5:44 AM
- Tyehimba Jess at Bowdoin College, September 7, 2006
- leadbelly's lessons (live, Sept. 2006)
- sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn (live, Sept. 2006)
- mistress stella speaks (live, Sept. 2006)
- bud russel, louisiana prison transfer man, 1920 (live, Sept. 2006)
- sing out (live, Sept. 2006)
- freedom (live, Sept. 2006)
- leadbelly in angolo prison: down again (live, Sept. 2006)
- leadbelly sings to his #1 crew (live, Sept. 2006)
- martha promise receives leadbelly, 1935 (live, Sept. 2006)
- Ethnogropher John Lomax Speaks of His Vocation (live, Sept. 2006)
- John Lomax Visits Leadbelly in Angola Prison: July 1933 (live, Sept. 2006)
- five year sentence (live, Sept. 2006)
- lomax v. leadbelly in new york: letters to home, 1934 (live, Sept. 2006)
- stella: diminuendo (live, Sept. 2006)
- Tyehimba Jess Audience Q&A, Bowdoin College, September 7, 2006
- Live Readings from the Fishouse Launch, Bowdoin College, April 30, 2005
- Tyehimba Jess Full Reading, Fishouse Launch, April 30, 2005
- freedom (live, April 2005)
- martha promise receives leadbelly (live, April 2005)
- five year sentence (live, April 2005)
- sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn (live, April 2005)
- mothafucka
- leadbelly vs. lomax at the modern language association conference, 1934
- 1912: blind lemon jefferson explaining to leadbelly
- Tyehimba Jess