"After Mecca": Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement Jackie D or for the sake of

or for the sake of 'name dropping' as some call it

Vidal weaves a rich tapestry of personal anecdote

and a founding member of the Beat Generation

and vice versa

"After Mecca": Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement Jackie D or for the sake ofThe politics and music of the sixties and early seventies have been the subject of scholarship for many years, but it is only very recently that attention has turned to the cultural production of African American poets. In "After Mecca," Cheryl Clarke explores the relationship between the Black Arts Movement and black women writers of the period. Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Jayne Cortez, Alice