Early Life & Education
"Sanchez was born in Birmingham, AL on ___."
What is September 9, 1934?
"Sonia Sanchez is an African-American poet most often associated with the ___."
What is Black Arts Movement?
"Sanchez has authored over a dozen books of ___, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books."
What is poetry?
"Sanchez tends to use incorrect spelling to celebrate the unique sound of black English, for which she gives credit to poets such as ___ and Sterling Brown."
What is Langston Hughes?
"In the early 1960s, Sanchez became a member of CORE."
What is Congress for Racial Equality?
"In 1955, Sanchez received a B.A. in ___ from Hunter College."
What is Political Science?
"Sanchez has taught as a professor at eight universities and has lectured at over ___ college campuses across the U.S., including Howard University."
What is 500?
"In 1985, Sanchez received the ___ Award for Homegirls & Handgrenades."
What is American Book Award?
"Sanchez is known for her innovative melding of musical formats—such as the blues—and traditional poetic formats like ___."
What is haiku?
"In 1972, Sanchez joined the Nation of Islam, during which time she published ___, but left the organization after three years in 1975 because their views on women's rights conflicted."
What is A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women?
"Though only six, Sanchez suffered from losing her grandmother, developing a terrible stutter that caused her to become ___."
What is introverted?
"Sanchez was the first to create and teach a course based on ___ and ___ in the United States and the course she offered on African American literature is generally considered the first of its kind taught at a predominately white university."
What is Black Women and Literature?
"Sanchez's later works, such as ___, tend to focus less on separatist themes and more on love, community, and empowerment."
What is Homegirls & Handgrenades?
"Poems such as Home Coming and We a BaddDDD People make use of urban black ___, experimental punctuation, spelling, and spacing, and the performative quality of jazz."
What is vernacular?
"Sanchez published poetry and essays in numerous periodicals in the 1960s, including ___, ___, and ___. Her writing established her importance as a political thinker to the "black aesthetic" program."
What is The Liberator, Negro Digest, and Black Dialogue?
"Although her first marriage to ___ Sanchez did not last, Sonia Sanchez would retain her professional name."
What is Albert?
"Though she was originally an integrationist in her thinking, after hearing Malcolm X speak, Sanchez became more separatist in her thinking and focused more on her ___ and ___."
What is black heritage and identity?
"In 2001, Sanchez received the ___ for her poetry (one of the highest honors awarded to a nationally recognized poet)."
What is Robert Frost Medal?
"Later works continue her experiments with forms such as the haiku in ___ (2010)."
What is Morning Haiku?
"In 2009, she received the Robert Creeley Award, from the ___."
What is Robert Creeley Foundation?
"When in ___, she overcame her stutter and excelled in school, finding her poetic voice which later emerged during her studies at Hunter College."
What is Harlem?
"Along with other prominent writers from the Black Arts Movement, Don L. Lee, Nikki Giovanni, and Etheridge Knight, Sanchez formed the influential ___."
What is Broadside Quartet?
"In 2013, Sanchez headlined the 17th annual Poetry Ink at which she read her poem ___."
What is Under a Soprano Sky?
"In addition to her poetry, Sanchez's contributions to the Black Arts Movement included ___ and prose."
What is drama?
"In ___, Sanchez was honored at the 16th Annual Dr. Betty Shabazz Awards in a ceremony held on June 29 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem."
What is 2017?