BLAX Museum is a talent showcase created by Cleveland writer and cultural facilitator Michelle R. Smith that is open to all forms and dedicated to honoring notable Black figures in American history and culture. It is an annual event featuring Black artists from Northeast Ohio that pay homage through original art and honorary performances and presentations.
For BLAX Museum 2022, poet Ali Black is paying tribute to Cleveland poet Russell Atkins with an original poem entitled "Riding the 14."
Russell Atkins (b. Feb 25, 1926) is a poet, composer, and editor, born in Cleveland, OH. He began playing piano at age seven and studied music at the Cleveland School of the Arts and Cleveland Institute of Music. In 1950, he co-founded, with Adelaide Simon, Free Lance, one of the oldest and most influential little magazines of the Black avant garde. His collections of poetry include eight chapbooks and small press books published between 1960-1978. His only full-length collection of poetry, Here in The, was published in 1976 by the Cleveland State Poetry Center. After falling into relative obscurity, Atkins was featured in Pleiades Press' "Unsung Masters" series: Russell Atkins: On the Life & Work of an American Master (2013). A collection of his papers is held at the Atlanta University Center's Robert W. Woodruff Library.
Ali Black is a writer from Cleveland, OH. She is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize for her poem "Kinsman." Her work has appeared in december, jubilat, Literary Hub, The Offing, and elsewhere. Her first book of poetry, If It Heals At All, was selected by Jaki Shelton Green for the New Voices series at Jacar Press and named a finalist for the 2021 Ohioana Book Award.
Find out more about Ali Black's work here: www.ablackpoet.com/
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