Ahmed Akinwole Ato Alhamisi (b. 1940)

Biography

The poet Ahmed Alhamisi was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1940, but soon moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he spent his childhood.

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

• The Black Narrator: At a Symposium for Afro-Americans (1966)
• Black Arts: An Anthology of Black Creations, ed. with Harun Kofi Wangara (1969)
• Journal of Black Poetry, Guest Editor (197?)

Poetry

• The Black Narrator: Poems (1966)
• Black Spiritual Gods: New Pomes [sic] (1968)
• Guerilla Warfare: Newer Pomes [sic] (1970)
• Holy Ghosts: Pomes [sic] (1972)

Young Adult

• Zizwe: A Little African Boy Born in a Foreign Land: An African Tale (1974)

Sources and Links

• ya Salaam, Kaluma. "Historical Overviews of the Black Arts Movement." The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.
• Tennessee State Library and Archives

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