This Is Not a Small Voice

Praise for Sonia Sanchez * - *The poetry of Sonia Sanchez is full of power and yet always clean and uncluttered. It makes you wish you had thought those thoughts, felt those emotions, and, above all, expressed them so effortlessly and so well – Chinua AchebeSonia Sanchez’s illustrious career spans seven decades. Her commanding oeuvre continues to elevate language’s ability to give voice to entire communities (their daily pleasures and pains) inside our shared and troubled history – Claudia RankineOnly a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty – Isabel AllendeA lion in literature’s forest... This world is a better place because of Sonia Sanchez: more livable, more laughable, more manageable. I wish millions of people knew that some of the joy in their lives comes from the fact that Sonia Sanchez is writing poetry – Maya AngelouYou have spoken for us … Written for us … Sung to us … How much in your debt we are – Toni MorrisonHer songs of destruction and loss scrape the heart; her praise songs thunder and revitalize. We need these songs for our journey together into the next century – Joy Harjo, former US Poet LaureateSonia Sanchez’s poetry is a must for all readers. Period * Essence *For over 60 years, Sanchez has helped redefine the landscape of American politics and literature… one of the greats in American poetry * NPR *

Sonia Sanchez is a poet, playwright, educator, activist, and one of the founders of the Black Arts movement. She is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including Does Your House Have Lions?, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Homegirls & Handgrenades, which won an American Book Award. She has also received many other awards including the Robert Creeley Award, the Frost Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Philadelphia.