1934) Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Sanchez has taught creative writing and African American literature in at least eight universities across the United States. Poet Sonia Sanchez was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 9, 1934. “Sonia Sanchez’s poetry is a must for all readers. Now a professor of English at Temple University, she has performed her poems and given poetry workshops in Australia, England, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Africa, as well as the States. Sonia Sanchez, American poet, playwright, and educator who was noted for her black activism. Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver, September 9,1934) is an African-American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. By Sonia Sanchez About this Poet Poet, playwright, professor, activist and one of the foremost leaders of the Black Studies movement, Sonia Sanchez was born Wilsonia Benita Driver on September 9, 1934, in Birmingham, Alabama. Biography.
She has authored over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books. In her poetry, Sonia Sanchez has urged black unity and action against white oppression in addition to writing about violence in the black community, the relationships between black men and women, familial ties, and social problems. Brief Bio (b.
Sonia Sanchez--poet, activist, scholar--was the Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University. Sonia Sanchez (2010). When she writes she roars, and when she sleeps other creatures walk gingerly.”… More -Maya Angelou “Sanchez’s powers of empathy shine with rare luminosity.”…
In her poetry, Sonia Sanchez has urged black unity and action against white oppression in addition to writing about violence in the black community, the relationships between black men and women, familial ties, and social problems. She is the foremost poet to use urban black English in written form. She received a B.A. She is the foremost poet to use urban black English in written form.
Driver lost her mother as an infant, and her father moved the family to Harlem, New York City, when she was nine. Sonia Sanchez.
She is the recipient of both the Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to American poetry and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award. 1934 —.
Poet, playwright, activist, educator, lecturer. Period.”… More -Essence “Sonia Sanchez is a lion in literature’s forest. Sanchez's mother died a year later, leaving the young girl to be raised by her paternal grandmother, who unlocked her gift for poetry.