{"id":100,"date":"2024-02-23T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T19:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/poetry-as-activism-in-conversation-with-chicory\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2024-06-12T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T19:58:58","slug":"community-publishing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/poetry-as-activism-in-conversation-with-chicory\/community-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Chicory <\/em>is an example of community publishing as it was originally a collaboration between the editor, local poet Sam Cornish, and librarians Evelyn Levy and Thelma Bell at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. The phenomenon of publishing magazines and newsletters by community members for community members is not a new one, but it resonates with <em>Soul of the Butterfly<\/em>\u2019s consideration of how a literary magazine operates as part of Black Arts activist movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wallace Thurman, et al.<em> Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists<\/em>. Facsimile ed., Fire!! Press, 1982.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00a0[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00a0[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fire!!, <\/em>a literary magazine published in 1926, exemplifies the work of community publishing and Black Arts movements. <em>Fire!! <\/em>is considered a key work of the Harlem Renaissance, as notable Black writers like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen contributed to the debut issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Diane Di Prima and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), <em>Floating Bear <\/em>#20, 1962.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artist-activists also took the means of production into their own hands and printed newsletters and magazines themselves. Such was the case with the <em>Floating Bear <\/em>newsletter (1961-1971). Published by Diane di Prima and LeRoi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka), the <em>Floating Bear <\/em>is considered part of the \u201cmimeograph revolution.\u201d Issue #20 includes updates regarding di Prima and Jones\u2019s arrest related to the newsletter\u2019s publication of a piece by Jones that was considered obscene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Photograph of Michael Myers working at a press, MSS 0880 Zephyrus Image Records, circa 1969-1983.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The California fine press Zephyrus Image (1969-1983) specialized in poetry and political work, including broadsides advocating for Indigenous rights at Alcatraz in 1971 and work by notable poets including Simon Ortiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Before Columbus Review, <\/em>vol. 1, no. 1, 1989. MSS 0398 Ishmael Reed Papers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>Before Columbus Review <\/em>is the quarterly publication of the Before Columbus Foundation, which was founded in 1976. Writer and activist Ishmael Reed played a central organizing role in creating the Foundation and the associated <em>Review.<\/em> Reed has been especially critical of American literary criticism and awards, which he argues are whitewashed and not representative of \u201cAmerica\u201d in all its multiethnic, multicultural complexity. The <em>Review <\/em>offered a space for creatives invested in the mission of the Foundation to discuss issues related to the state of multiethnic literature in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicory is an example of community publishing as it was originally a collaboration between the editor, local poet Sam Cornish, and librarians Evelyn Levy and Thelma Bell at the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. 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