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2. Poetry: Etheridge Knight Etheridge Knight ( 19331991) LINKS. The Academy of American Poets - Poetry Exhibits Etheridge Knight. http//www.poets.org/lit/poet/eknight. htm. Modern American Poetry Etheridge Knight http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/knight.htm

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Up More Authors Children Book Authors Cartoonists ... AALBC.com Home Etheridge Knight Click name to order Knight's books Biography Source: The Academy of American Poets http://www.poets.org/poets/lit/POET/eknight.htm Etheridge Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1931. Although he dropped out of school at age fourteen, his education in the uses and joys of language continued as he explored the world of juke joints, pool halls, and underground poker games. He began to master the art of the toast, a form of long, improvised, humorous poetry that dates back to the 19th century and has its roots in African storytelling. From 1947 to 1951, Knight served in the U.S. Army in Korea, and returning with a shrapnel wound that caused him to fall deeper into a drug addiction that had begun in his youth. In 1960 he was arrested for robbery and sentenced to eight years in the Indiana State Prison. During this time he began writing poetry, and he corresponded with and received visits from such established African American literary figures as Dudley Randall and Gwendolyn Brooks Poems from Prison The book was a success, and Knight soon joined such poets as

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KnightEtheridge OpenPoetryProject RecentChanges Preferences Etheridge Knight (1933 - 1991) Etheridge Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1933. Knight attended two years of public high school in Kentucky, then went into the army from 1948 to 1951, seeing active duty during the Korean War, where he received a shrapnel wound. In 1960 he was convicted of robbery (done supporting a drug habit) and sentenced to twenty year in prison. While in Indiana State Prison, he discovered poetry, was paroled after eight years, and published his first collection "Poems From Prison" with Dudley Randall's Broadside Press. His collection "Belly Songs" was nominated for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in 1973, and he received the 1987 American Book Aware for "The Essential Etheridge Knight." He died of lung cancer in 1991. Sources [Knight Bio at the Academy of American Poets] [A short Bio at St. Martin's Press] [Collection of links, poems, bio] Bibliography Poems from Prison (1968) The Idea of Ancestry (1968) 2 Poems for Black Relocation Center (1968) For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide (1972) A Poem for Brother Man (1972) Belly Song and Other Poems (1973) Born of a Woman: New and Selected Poems (1980) The Essential Etheridge Knight (1986) Document last modified Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:02:47

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Etheridge Knight The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project of Starkville High School Major Works Biography of Etheridge Knight by Mitchell Evans, Jr. (SHS) Timeline on Etheridge Knight by Mitchell Evans, Jr. Related Web Sites Bibliography Major Works Poems from Prison, 1968 The Idea of Ancestry, 1968 2 Poems for Black Relocation Center, 1968 For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide, 1972 A Poem for Brother Man, 1972 Belly Song and Other Poems, 1973 Born of a Woman: New and Selected Poems, 1980 The Essential Etheridge Knight, 1986 Etheridge Knight: A Biography by Mitchell Evans, Jr. (SHS) Etheridge Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi. He was one of seven children born to a poor rural family. Knight dropped out of school at the age of fourteen (Magill 419). but his "education in the uses and joys of language continued as he explored the world of juke joints, pool halls and underground poker games" (www.poets.com). When he become seventeen, he joined the army as a medical technical and saw active service in Korea, where he received a scrapnel wound. Treatment for that wound increased his addiction to narcotics. In 1960, he was a robber, and one day he was arrested for snatching an elderly white woman's purse (Magill 419). He was sentenced to ten to twenty years in the state penitentiary (Lumpkin, 203). In jail, he started reading

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Chapter 45: Etheridge Knight Etheridge Knight Etheridge Knight Born in Corinth, Mississippi, in 1931, Etheridge Knight was one of seven children in a poor family, and completed only a ninth-grade education. He spent his adolescent years in menial jobs and in the predominantly black male environments of pool halls, bars, and juke joints. There he honed his skills in verbal performance, mastering the art of "black toasts" or "telling toasts," long narrative poems from the oral tradition which are performed from memory and with spirit. While his rough adolescent environment encouraged Knight's poetic experience, it also introduced him to drugs. He became addicted at an early age and would never fully free himself of the addiction. Korean War , he suffered a shrapnel wound, and his addiction to narcotics increased when he was treated with morphine. Arrested in 1960 in Indianapolis for stealing a purse to support his drug habit, he served an eight-year prison sentence. Convinced his prison sentence was unjustly long and racially-motivated, Knight wrote poetry to curb his anger. He was encouraged by the prominent poet Gwendolyn Brooks , and by Dudley Randall, whose new Broadside Press published Knight's first collection, Poems from Prison

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Etheridge Knight - (1931-1991) Nashville By Calisha Brooks Tennessee State University, Tennessee I. Introduction Etheridge Knight's prison poetry, by means of its temporal/spatial references and movements, liberates the minds and spirits of his readers, and of his people as a whole. Knight was one of the most popular poets of the Black Arts Movement, a period during the 1960s of literary and cultural revival for black writers and artists. He began writing poetry when he was an inmate at the Indiana State prison. In many of his poems he expressed a desire for freedom and protested the oppression of blacks and the under privileged in "the bigger prison of society." He strove for a balance between "the poet, the poem, and the people." II. Biography Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi, and grew up in Mississippi and Paducah, Kentucky with four brothers and two sisters. Quitting school after the eighth grade, Knight did not finish because he wanted to run away from home instead. Later when he was seventeen years old, he joined the army disillusioned and got hooked. Knight served as a medical technical and saw active service in Korea where he received a "psyche, wound." In his book Born a Woman , Knight writes, "I died in Korea from a shrapnel wound, and narcotics resurrected me"(Knight 124). This resurrection led to what Knight called "another death." He was convicted of a 1960 robbery committed in Indianapolis, Indiana to support his drug habit. "I died in 1960 from a prison sentence and poetry brought me back to life" (Knight 180). In prison, Knight says he found a community and it was because of poetry that is what brought him into communion with other people.

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Knight, Etheridge (b. April 19, 1931, Corinth, Miss., U.S.d. March 10, 1991, Indianapolis, Ind.), African-American poet who emerged as a robust voice of the black aesthetic movement with his first volume of verse, Poems from Prison (1968). His poetry combined the energy and bravado of African-American "toasts" (long narrative poems that were recited in a mixture of street slang, specialized argot, and obscenities) with a concern for freedom from oppression. Knight grew up in Paducah, Ky., dropped out of high school, became addicted to drugs, and joined the U.S. Army, serving as a medical technician in the Korean War. Arrested for robbery in 1960, Knight was imprisoned for eight yearsan experience that he recounted in verse in Poems from Prison and in prose in the anthology Black Voices from Prison (1970; originally published two years earlier in Italian as Voce negre dal carcere After his release from prison, Knight taught at various universities and contributed to several magazines, working for two years as an editor of Motive and as a contributing editor of New Letters (1974). He experimented with rhythmic forms of punctuation in

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Knight, Etheridge (b. April 19, 1931, Corinth, Miss., U.S.d. March 10, 1991, Indianapolis, Ind.), African-American poet who emerged as a robust voice of the black aesthetic movement with his first volume of verse, Poems from Prison (1968). His poetry combined the energy and bravado of African-American "toasts" (long narrative poems that were recited in a mixture of street slang, specialized argot, and obscenities) with a concern for freedom from oppression. Knight grew up in Paducah, Ky., dropped out of high school, became addicted to drugs, and joined the U.S. Army, serving as a medical technician in the Korean War. Arrested for robbery in 1960, Knight was imprisoned for eight yearsan experience that he recounted in verse in Poems from Prison and in prose in the anthology Black Voices from Prison (1970; originally published two years earlier in Italian as Voce negre dal carcere After his release from prison, Knight taught at various universities and contributed to several magazines, working for two years as an editor of Motive and as a contributing editor of New Letters (1974). He experimented with rhythmic forms of punctuation in

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