AARON MATÉ: We spend the rest of the hour with the legendary author, poet, activist, Alice Walker. In her newest book, The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens ...

Alice Walker Poetry Collections (1965, 1991) Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 (1968) Once (1973) Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems ...

And editor Gloria Hull believes that 1920s poet Alice Dunbar-Nelson — who, like Alice Walker, describes in her diary passionate attachments to both men and women — may have turned to her diary ...

Poetry is a constant for Alice Walker. Her literary career, which spans over four decades, has been dominated by her novel The Color Purple,often at the expense of a robust body of work and ...

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“Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart” is the first bilingual poetry book of Alice Walker’s 35 published and prolific works. The first female African American winner of a Pulitzer Prize in fiction, ...

Alice Walker’s contributions to literature extend beyond the scope of any one novel or essay. She writes with the clarity and wisdom of someone deeply attuned to the struggles and triumphs of ...

"The Color Purple" author Alice Walker last week endorsed a book by a British conspiracy theorist frequently accused of anti-Semitism, and literary observers are speaking out on social media.

(Above: Alice Walker by Anthony Barboza, 1989) NMAAHC, gift of ... Self-discovery, sisterhood and spirituality are recognizable themes of the feminist poet’s era-defining title, ...

In Courtney Thorsson's cultural history The Sisterhood, she details how intimate gatherings played a role in the golden age of Black women's writing.