Jayne Cortez para niños

Jayne Cortez (10 de mayo de 1934 - 28 de diciembre de 2012) fue una poeta afroamericana, activista y artista de performance de la palabra hablada cuya voz se celebra por sus innovaciones políticas, surrealistas y dinámicas con lirismo y sonido visceral. Su escritura es parte del canon del Movimiento de Artes Negras.

Libros de poesía

• On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems. Hanging Loose Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-931236-99-7. 
• The Beautiful Book. Bola Press. 2007. ISBN 9780960806287. 
• Jazz Fan Looks Back. 2002. ISBN 978-1-931236-10-2. 
• Somewhere in Advance of Nowhere. Serpent's Tail/High Risk Books. 1997. ISBN 1852424222. 
• Fragments: Sculpture and Drawings from the "Lynch Fragment" Series by Melvin Edwards, with the Poetry of Jayne Cortez. Bola Press. 1994. ISBN 1852424222. 
• Poetic Magnetic: Poems from Everywhere Drums & Maintain Control. Bola Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-9608062-6-3. 
• Coagulations: New and Selected Poems. Pluto. 1984. ISBN 978-0-7453-0078-8. 
• Firespitter, Bola Press (1982)
• Mouth on Paper, Bola Press (1977)
• Scarifications, Bola Press (1973)
• Festivals and Funerals, Bola Press (1971)
• Pissstained Stairs and the Monkey Man's Wares, Phrase Text (1969)

Discografía

• As If You Knew (Bola Press, 2011)
• Find Your Own Voice: Poetry and Music, 1982-2003 (Bola Press, 2004)
• Borders of Disorderly Time (Bola Press, 2002)
• Taking the Blues Back Home (Harmolodic/Verve, 1996)
• Cheerful & Optimistic (Bola Press, 1994)
• Poetry & Music: Women in (E)Motion Festival (Tradition & Moderne Musikproducktion, Germany, 1992)
• Everywhere Drums (Bola Press, 1990)
• There It Is (Bola Press, 1982)
• Life is a Killer (compilation on Giorno Poetry Systems, 1982)
• Poets Read their Contemporary Poetry: Before Columbus Foundation (Smithsonian Folkways, 1980)
• Unsubmissive Blues (Bola Press, 1979)
• Celebrations & Solitudes: The Poetry of Jayne Cortez & Richard Davis, Bassist (Strata-East, 1974)

Videos

• Find Your Own Voice (Sanctuary TV, 2010)
• She Got He Got (Sanctuary TV, 2010)
• I'm Gonna Shake (Sanctuary TV, 2010)

Filmografía

• Femmes du Jazz/Women in Jazz (2000)
• Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future (1999)
• Ornette: Made in America (1985)
• Poetry in Motion (1982)

Enlaces externos

Véase también

En inglés: Jayne Cortez Facts for Kids