Jayne Cortez

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name=Jayne Cortez
nationality=African


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place of birth = Fort Huachuca, Arizona
height = 174 cm
field = poetry, music, spoken word
training = Pratt Institute, Yale
grad school =Yale, 1968
website = [http://www.jaynecortez08.com Official website]
profession = Poet|Jayne Cortez was born in Arizona, grew up in California, and currently lives in New York City and Dakar, Senegal. She is the author of ten books of poems and performer of her poetry with music on nine recordings. Her voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic innovations in lyricism, and visceral sound. Cortez has presented her work and ideas at universities, museums, and festivals in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, the Caribbean and the United States. Her poems have been translated into many languages and widely published in anthologies, journals, and magazines. She is the recipient of several awards including: Arts International, the National Endowment for the Arts, the International African Festival Award, The Langston Hughes Award, and the American Book Award. Her most recent books are "The Beautiful Book" Bola Press 2007, "Jazz Fan Looks Back" published by Hanging Loose Press, and "Somewhere In Advance of Nowhere" published by Serpent's Tail Ltd. Her latest CD recordings with the Firespitter Band are "Taking the Blues Back Home," produced by Harmolodic and by Verve Records, "Borders of Disorderly Time" and " Find Your Own Voice released by Bola Press. Cortez is director of the film "Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future," organizer of "Slave Routes the Long Memory" and "Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writer Dissecting Globalization," both conferences were held at New York University. She is president of the Organization of Women Writers of Africa, me. and is on screen in the films: "Women In Jazz" and "Poetry In Motion."

Discography

Books/Poetry

External links

* [http://www.jaynecortez.coml Home page]
* [http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cortez/cortez.htm Cortez at "Modern American Poetry" (poems, bibliography etc.)]
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/26/DDK9SVDQB.DTL San Francisco cronicle 2007]