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Mari Evans

Born

in Toledo, Ohio, The United States

July 16, 1923

Died

March 10, 2017

Website

http://aalbc.com/authors/mari.htm

Genre

Poetry, Children's Books, Nonfiction

Influences

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Mari Evans attended the University of Toledo and later taught at several other schools, including Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., and Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. She began five years of writing, producing, and directing for an Indianapolis television program, “The Black Experience,” in 1968, the same year her first poetry collection, Where Is All the Music?, was published. With her second collection, I Am a Black Woman (1970), she gained acclaim as an important new poet. Her poem “Who Can Be Born Black” was often anthologized.

Her later collections include Nightstar: 1973–1978 (1981), whose poems praise blues artists and community heroes and heroines, and A Dark and Splendid Mass (1992). Continuum, published in 2007, contains c ...more

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Average rating: 4.21 · 657 ratings · 89 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors

	I Am a Black Woman 4.22 avg rating — 54 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dark and Splendid Mass 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Women Writers (1950-1980): A Critical Evaluation 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1984 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	"I'm Late": the Story of LaNeese and Moonlight and Alisha Who Didn't Have Anyone of Her Own 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Continuum: New and Selected Poems by Mari Evans, Nikki Giovanni (Afterword), Maya Angelou (Foreword by) 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Continuum: New and Selected Poems, Revised Edition 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dear Corinne, Tell Somebody! Love, Annie: A Book About Secrets 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nightstar: 1973-1978 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Singing Black: Alternative Nursery Rhymes for Children by Mari Evans, Ramon Price (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I will bring you a whole person and you will bring me a whole person and we will have us twice as much of love and everything.”
― Mari Evans

tags: love

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“When
I die
I'm sure
I will have a
Big Funeral.

Curiosity
seekers...
coming to see
if I
am really
Dead
or just
trying to make
Trouble.”
― Mari Evans

tags: poem

8 likes

“I
am a black woman
tall as a cypress
strong
beyond all definition still
defying place
and time
and circumstance
assailed
impervious
indestructible
Look
on me and be
renewed”
― Mari Evans

tags: african-americans, black-women, blacks, poem, poetry, strength, women

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