Eugene B. Redmond

Eugene B. Redmond (born December 1, 1937,

Life

Eugene B. Redmond was born in

Redmond’s published works include a pamphlet poem and six poetry collections, as well as numerous contributions to journals and anthologies. He has edited two anthologies of African-American poetry and eight works by Henry Dumas. Dumas had taught at nearby Hiram College before he was shot down in a New York subway, in a case of mistaken identity. It was Dr Crosby who pushed to have SIU put Dumas's writings into publication and urged Redmond to edit the works, which Redmond continues to do to this day.

In 1976, Redmond was named Poet Laureate of East St. Louis.^[3]

Redmond published his survey and analysis of 200 years of African-American poetry, Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry, A Critical History, in 1976. He is the founding editor of Drumvoices Revue, a multicultural literary journal jointly published by the English Department of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club.^[5]

Redmond has donated his collection, comprising his personal library, manuscripts, photographs, posters, and other ephemera, to

• National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
• Lifetime Achievement Award from Pan-African Movement USA
• Pushcart Prize: Best of Small Presses
• Tribute to an Elder from the African Poetry Theater of NYC
• 1993
  American Book Award
  for The Eye in the Ceiling: Selected Poems

Works

• A Tale of Time & Toilet Tissue. 1969.
• Sentry of the Four Golden Pillars. 1970.
• River of Bones and Flesh and Blood. 1971.
• Songs from an Afro/phone. 1972.
• In a Time of Rain & Desire: New Love Poems. 1973.
• Consider Loneliness as These Things. 1974.
• The Eye in the Ceiling: Selected Poems. Harlem River Press. 1991.
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• Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry, A Critical History. Anchor Press. 1976.
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• Lee Ann Sandweiss, ed. (2000). "Honoring the Female Olympian of the Century; Wedge Wall, Huge Hand". Seeking St. Louis: Voices from a River City, 1670–2000. Missouri History Museum.
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  . Eugene B. Redmond.
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• Marie Harris, Kathleen Aguero, eds (1989), "Epigrams for My Father", An Ear to the Ground, University of Georgia Press.
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• John H. Bracey Jr.,
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