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	History of the Plutzik Reading Series Dannie Abse Edward Albee John Ashberry James Baldwin Toni Cade Bambara John Barth Dan Beachy-Quick Madison Smartt Bell John Berryman Linda Bierds Elizabeth Bishop Gwendolyn Brooks J. M. Coetzee Robert Coover Robert Creeley Robertson Davies Lydia Davis Kathryn Davis Samuel Delany James Dickey Daniel Donaghy Beverly Donofrio Rita Dove Rikki Ducornet Ralph Ellison Clayton Eshleman Brian Evenson Alan Ginsberg Dana Gioia Joy Harjo Matthea Harvey Anthony Hecht John Hollander Maureen Howard Richard Howard Fanny Howe Christine Hume Shelly Jackson LeRoi Jones Erica Jong Ilya Kaminsky Sally Keith Galway Kinnell Maxine Kumin Denise Levertov James Longenbach Robert Lowell Alison Lurie Nathaniel Mackey Gerard Malenga Ben Markus Heather McHugh Christopher Merrill W. S. Merwin Stephen Millhauser Rick Moody Michael Ondaatje Alicia Ostriker Michael Palmer Carl Phillips Tom Piazza Marge Piercy Robert Pinsky Bin Ramke Donald Revell Adrienne Rich Salman Rushdie Joanna Scott Alan Shapiro William De Witt Snodgrass John Updike Helen Vendler Ellen Bryant Voigt Andrei Vosnesensky Derek Walcott Richard Wilbur C K Williams James Wright Charles Wright Dean Young Paul Zimmer Toni Cade Bambara 7 Apr 1982 More about Toni Cade Bambara Toni Cade Bambara was a native of New York City who devoted her life to her writing and her social activism. Her causes ranged from improving the living conditions of minority city dwellers to creating television documentaries about racial or social injustice. Like Bambara herself, many of the characters in her short stories, most often women, were also community activists who derived strength from storytelling. Bambara‘s works include the short-story collections Gorilla, My Love (1972) and The Sea Birds Are Still Alive (1977) and the novel The Salt Eaters (1981). Text from http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/naal5/explore/bambara.htm Picture from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v019/full/19.2ross_art01f.jpg
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