Keith Gilyard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1265310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Gilyard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilyard |
| SIGNATURE | GILYARD K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Baraka in Blue
A Brick and a Bible
Langston Hughes and Dream Deferral
“Langston Hughes and Dream Deferral” examines the protests over George Floyd’s murder through the lens of Langston Hughes’s famous motif of dream deferral. Keith Gilyard argues that Hughes’s primary concern as a poet was illuminating the process by which black people’s dreams have been deferred throughout American history. However, much of the essay focuses on conflicting viewpoints on black resistance in the post-civil rights era. Gilyard shows …
Louise Thompson Patterson
Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African American politics. Throughout most of the twentieth century she embodied a dedicated resistance to racial, economic, and gender exploitation. In this, the first biography of Patterson, Keith Gilyard tells her compelling story, from her childhood on the West Coast, where she suffered isolation and persecution, to her participation in the Harlem Renai…
The 2012 NCTE Presidential Address
This is the text of Keith Gilyard’s presidential address, delivered at the NCTE Annual Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 18, 2012
For Jayne
John Oliver Killens
To Repel Ghosts
Blue Notes
Yusef Komunyakaa discusses the influences of blues and jazz music and poetry on his own writing, comments on some of his own poems, selects interviews that reveal the artistic sensibility of poets and explores some of his own current interests
Race, Rhetoric, and Composition
Ornate with Smoke
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Race, Rhetoric, and Composition
Ornate with Smoke
Blue Notes
Yusef Komunyakaa discusses the influences of blues and jazz music and poetry on his own writing, comments on some of his own poems, selects interviews that reveal the artistic sensibility of poets and explores some of his own current interests
To Repel Ghosts
John Oliver Killens
The 2012 NCTE Presidential Address
This is the text of Keith Gilyard’s presidential address, delivered at the NCTE Annual Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 18, 2012
For Jayne
Louise Thompson Patterson
Born in 1901, Louise Thompson Patterson was a leading and transformative figure in radical African American politics. Throughout most of the twentieth century she embodied a dedicated resistance to racial, economic, and gender exploitation. In this, the first biography of Patterson, Keith Gilyard tells her compelling story, from her childhood on the West Coast, where she suffered isolation and persecution, to her participation in the Harlem Renai…
Langston Hughes and Dream Deferral
“Langston Hughes and Dream Deferral” examines the protests over George Floyd’s murder through the lens of Langston Hughes’s famous motif of dream deferral. Keith Gilyard argues that Hughes’s primary concern as a poet was illuminating the process by which black people’s dreams have been deferred throughout American history. However, much of the essay focuses on conflicting viewpoints on black resistance in the post-civil rights era. Gilyard shows …
A Brick and a Bible
Baraka in Blue
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