Sonia Sanchez By: Jake Woods. Highlights of Life  Born in Birmingham, Alabama on September 9, 1934.  Hunter College  Married  Poetry  Multiple Awards.

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Sonia Sanchez By: Jake Woods

Highlights of Life  Born in Birmingham, Alabama on September 9,  Hunter College  Married  Poetry  Multiple Awards

Homecoming i have been a way so long once after college i returned tourist style to watch all the niggers killing themselves with 3 for ones with needles that cd not support Their Stutters. now woman I have returned Leaving behind me All those hide and Seek faces peeling With Freudian dreams. This is for real. black niggers my beauty. Baby. I have learned it Ain’t like they say In the newspapers.

Summer Words of a Sistuh Addict the first day i shot dope was on a Sunday. i had just come home from church got mad at my motha cuz she got mad at me. u dig? went out. shot up behind a feelen gainst her. it felt good. gooder than dooing it. yeah. it was nice. i did it. uh. huh. i did it. uh. huh. i want to do it again, it felt so gooooood. and as the sistuh sits in her silent/ remembered/high someone leans for ward gently asks her: sistuh. did u finally learn how to hold yo/mother? and the music of the day drifts in the room to mingle with the sistuh’s young tears. and we all sing.

Achievements Awards:  1984, Lucretia Mott Award  1985, Outstanding Arts Award from the Pennsylvania Coalition of 100 Black Women  1985, Community Service Award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators  1985, American Book Award for Homegirls and Handgrenades  1988, Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Humanities  1989, Peace and Freedom Award from Women International League for Peace and Freedom (W.I.L.P.F.)  1992–1993, PEW Fellowship in the Arts  1999, recipient of Langston Hughes Poetry Award  2001, Robert Frost Medal Written Work: Plays: Black Cats and Uneasy Landings I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't Sista Son/Ji Uh Huh, But How Do It Free Us? Malcolm Man/Don't Live Here No More Short Story (Collections): A Sound Investment and Other Stories Children's Books: It's a New Day A Sound Investment The Adventures of Fat Head, Small Head, and Square Head Poetry: Homecoming We a Baddddd People (1970) Love Poems A Blues Book for a Blue Black Magic Woman Autumn Blues

Works Cited  “Sonia Sanchez.” (n.d.). Retrieved December 4, 2015, from  "Sonia Sanchez." Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation, n.d. Web. 02 Dec  Perspectives on African American Lit. (n.d.). Retrieved December 4, 2015, from ng-by-sonia-sanchez.html ng-by-sonia-sanchez.html