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Hettie Jones (née Cohen; born in 1934) is an American poet. She has written twenty-three books that include a memoir of the Beat Generation, three volumes of poetry, and publications for children and young adults, including The Trees Stand Shining and Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music .
5 feb 2019 · Per la nostra rubrica sulle poetesse della Beat Generation scopriamo la storia di Hettie Jones che sposò l'artista nero LeRoi Jones aka Amiri Baraka lasciando senza parole la New York degli...
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New York, June 5 2016--Hettie Jones reads Hanging My Global Ass on the Line, a new poem, and older poems on the second day of Beat & Beyond at Bowery Poetry ...
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10 apr 2018 · Hettie Jones - The Poetry Project. Best known for How I Became Hettie Jones, her memoir of the Beat Scene, Hettie Jones has published 26 books for children and adults, the first in 1971 and the most recent in 2016. Drive, her first poetry collection, won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award and was followed by All Told and Doing 70.
Hettie Jones (born 1934 as Hettie Cohen) is best known as the first wife of Amiri Baraka, known as LeRoi Jones at the time of their marriage, but is also a writer herself. While known for her poetry, she has received acclaim for her memoir, How I Became Hettie Jones (published 1990 by Grove Press).
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5 giorni fa · Hettie Jones. Born Hettie Cohen in Brooklyn, New York, in 1934, Hettie Jones attended Mary Washington College before going on to earn a BA in Drama from the University of Virginia and pursue postgraduate work at Columbia University.
22 mag 2008 · In New York’s Greenwich Village from 1957 to 1963, poets Hettie Jones and her then-husband LeRoi Jones (who later changed his name to Amiri Baraka) published a magazine called Yugen, showcasing poetry and writings by Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Philip Whalen, and others.
