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NAACP Image Award For Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry. This award was first awarded in 2007 and since its conception, Nikki Giovanni holds the record for most wins in this category with three. Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold. 2000s 2010s 2020s Multiple wins and nominations Wins ; 3 wins * Nikki Giovanni Nominations ; 4 nominations * Nikki Giovanni ; 3 nominations * Derek Walcott ; 2 nominations * Camille T. Dungy * Major Jackson * Jamaal May * Carl Phillips Carl Phillips (born 1959) is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Early life Phillips was born in Everett, Washington. He was born a child of a military family, moving year-by-year unt ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry NAACP Image Awards American literary awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NAACP Image Award
The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature. Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys, the over 40 categories of the Image Awards are voted on by the award organization's members (in this case, NAACP members). Honorary awards (similar to the Academy Honorary Award) have also been included, such as the President's Award, the Chairman's Award, the Entertainer of the Year, and the Hall of Fame Award. History The award ceremony was first organized and presented on August 13, 1967, by activists Maggie Hathaway, Sammy Davis Jr. and Willis Edwards, all three of whom were leaders of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP branch. While it was first taped for television by NBC (which broadcast the awards from 1987 to 1994 in January, on weeks when ''Saturday Night Live'' wasn't airing a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel ''The Color Purple''."National Book Awards – 1983" National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 15, 2012. (With essays by Anna Clark and Tarayi Jones from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry. She has faced criticism for alleged antisemitism and for her endorsement of the conspiracist |
46th NAACP Image Awards
The 46th NAACP Image Awards, presented by the NAACP, honored outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in motion pictures, television, music and literature during the 2014 calendar year. The 46th ceremony was hosted by Anthony Anderson and broadcast on TV One. All nominees are listed below with the winners listed in bold. Motion Picture Outstanding Motion Picture * '' Belle'' * ''Beyond the Lights'' * ''Dear White People'' * '' Get On Up'' * ''Selma'' Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture * Chadwick Boseman – '' Get On Up'' * David Oyelowo – ''Selma'' * Denzel Washington – '' The Equalizer'' * Idris Elba – '' No Good Deed'' * Nate Parker – ''Beyond the Lights'' Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture * Gugu Mbatha-Raw – '' Belle'' * Quvenzhané Wallis – '' Annie'' * Taraji P. Henson – '' No Good Deed'' * Tessa Thompson – ''Dear White People'' * Viola Davis – ''The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby'' Outstanding Supporting Actor in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamaal May
Jamaal May is an American poet from Detroit. Life and career May lived in Detroit, where he taught poetry in public schools as a Writer-in-Residence with InsideOut Literary Arts. He received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. May has taught at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and was a fellow at the ''Kenyon Review'' between 2014 and 2016. May cites Vievee Francis, another poet from Detroit, as an influence and mentor. His work has appeared in the Best American Poetry 2014,'' The Believer'', ''Poetry'', and ''Ploughshares'' . His first book, ''Hum'', received generally favorable reviews. Bibliography *''The God engine: poems'', Columbus, Ohio: Pudding House Publications, 2009. *''The whetting of teeth: and other poems'', Detroit, Mich.: Organic Weapon Arts, 2012. , *''Hum'', Alice James Books, 2013 *''The Big Book of Exit Strategies'' Farmington, Maine: Alice James Books Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in Farmington, Maine and affiliated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank X Walker
Frank X Walker (born June 11, 1961) is an African-American poet from Danville, Kentucky. Walker coined the word "Affrilachia", signifying the importance of the African-American presence in Appalachia: the "new word ... spoke to the union of Appalachian identity and the region's African-American culture and history". He is a Professor in the English department at the University of Kentucky and was the Poet Laureate of Kentucky from 2013-2015. Biography Walker was born Frank Walker, Jr., in Danville, Kentucky, the second of eleven children. He grew up in Danville, where the family lived in public housing projects. He was an avid reader as a child. Walker describes himself as both a "nerd" and an athlete in his teenage years. At Danville High School (Kentucky), Danville High School, he played American football, football on the school team, was a member of several clubs, and was twice elected class president. He was recruited to attend the University of Kentucky in engineering, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
45th NAACP Image Awards
The 45th NAACP Image Awards, presented by the NAACP, honored outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in motion pictures, television, music and literature during the 2013 calendar year. The awards were presented in two separate ceremonies. The first ceremony honoring non-televised categories took place on Friday, February 21, 2014 and was hosted by Rickey Smiley and Kimberly Elise. The second ceremony was broadcast live on TV One on Saturday, February 22, 2014 and was hosted by Anthony Anderson. All nominees are listed below with the winners listed in bold. Motion Picture Outstanding Motion Picture *'' 12 Years a Slave'' *''Fruitvale Station'' *''Lee Daniels' The Butler'' *'' Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'' *''The Best Man Holiday'' Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture *Forest Whitaker - ''Lee Daniels' The Butler'' *Chadwick Boseman - '' 42'' *Chiwetel Ejiofor - '' 12 Years a Slave'' *Idris Elba - '' Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'' *Michael B. Jordan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey (born April 26, 1966) is an American poet who was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 2012 and again in 2013. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection ''Native Guard'', and she is a former List of U.S. states' Poets Laureate, Poet Laureate of Mississippi. Trethewey is the Board of Trustees Professor of English at Northwestern University. She previously served as the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University, where she taught from 2001 to 2017. Trethewey was elected in 2019 both to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Academy of American Poets Chancellor David St. John said Trethewey “is one of our formal masters, a poet of exquisite delicacy and poise who is always unveiling the racial and historical inequities of our country and the ongoing personal expense of these injustices. Rarely has any poetic intersection of cultural and perso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Rowan Ricardo Phillips (born 1974 in New York City) is an American poet and writer. He is the author of the poetry collections ''The Ground'' (2012), ''Heaven'' (2015), and ''Living Weapon'' (2020), the non-fiction books ''When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness'' and ''The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey'', and a translation from the Catalan of Salvador Espriu's short-story collection ''Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth''. Phillips has been the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Prize. He won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry in 2013 and the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sportswriting in 2019. Phillips was one of 32 poets, novelists, playwrights, and short story writers "essential to how we understand our country and its place in the world right now" featured in the 2018 New York Times Style Magazine article and video project "Black Male Writers of Our Time." Life Phillips was born i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly Wide-format printer, large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries. History Early years; 1930–1987 ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. Wilkerson, William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential. The newspaper appeared Monday-to-Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday-to-Friday from 1940. Wilkerson used caustic articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Truth Thomas
Truth Thomas (born Glenn Edward Thomas in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American singer-songwriter, poet, editor, publisher and founder of Cherry Castle Publishing, LLC. He is the author of ''Party of Black'' (2006), ''A Day of Presence'' (2008), ''Bottle of Life'' (2010), ''Speak Water'' (2012), winner of the 2013 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry, and ''My TV is Not the Boss of Me'' (2013), Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Award Finalist 2014, a children's book, illustrated by Cory Thomas. Thomas is the creator of fixed form of poetry known as "The Skinny." In addition, he has edited and co-edited a number of anthologies, including ''Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience'' (Cherry Castle Publishing, 2022),''The Skinny Poetry Anthology'' (Cherry Castle Publishing, 2019), and is the ''Editor-in-Chief of The Skinny Poetry Journal''. During his early music career (recording as Glenn Edward Thomas), his first full-length studio album, ''Take Love'', was produced in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
44th NAACP Image Awards
The 44th NAACP Image Awards ceremony, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), honored the best in film, television, recording, and literature of 2012. The ceremony took place on February 1, 2013, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, aired live on NBC and was hosted by Steve Harvey. All nominees are listed below with the winners listed in bold. Motion picture Motion Picture *''Beasts of the Southern Wild'' (Fox Searchlight Pictures) *''Django Unchained'' (The Weinstein Company) *''Flight'' (Paramount Pictures) *''Red Tails'' (Lucasfilm) *'' Tyler Perry's Good Deeds'' (Lionsgate) Actor in a Motion Picture * Denzel Washington - ''Flight'' (Paramount Pictures) *Jamie Foxx - ''Django Unchained'' (The Weinstein Company) * Morgan Freeman - ''The Magic of Belle Isle'' (Magnolia Pictures) *Suraj Sharma- ''Life of Pi'' (20th Century Fox) *Tyler Perry - ''Alex Cross'' (Summit Entertainment) Actress in a Motion Picture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darrin Henson
Darrin Dewitt Henson (born May 5, 1973) is an American choreographer, dancer, actor, director and producer. Hensen was a brief member of freestyle music group Trilogy and was featured on their single "Good Time".80's Freestyle Music Artist Duran form group Trilogy shares his journey with music and faith Apple. Retrieved on January 15, 2022 Henson attended "Prep for Prep," a non-profit organization whose vision is to prepare 's top minority students for success in education and in life. Newly married to Taurey Winter Bingham. Career< ...
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