Alvin Aubert
Alvin Bernard Aubert (March 1930 – January 7, 2014) was a poet and scholar who championed African American culture and rural life along the southern Mississippi River. He grew up in Lutcher, Louisiana, and attended Southern University the University of Michigan and the University of Illinois. He taught at Southern University, SUNY Fredonia and Wayne State University. He died on January 7, 2014, in Trenton, New Jersey.[1]
Honors
Aubert's many honors included fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Callaloo Award and the Xavier Activist for the Humanities Award.[2]
Works
- Against the Blues (1972)
- Feeling Through (1975)
- A Noisesome Music (1979)
- South Louisiana: New and Selected Poems (1985)
- If Winter Come: Collected Poems 1967–1992 (1994)
- Harlem Wrestler and Other Poems (1995)
References
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- ↑ Link The Poetry Foundation: Biography of Alvin Aubert
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