Afaa Michael Weaver (Michael S. Weaver) 蔚雅風

Poet, Playwright, Short Fiction Writer, Journalist, Editor, and Translator

FROM THE CORNER

EAST BALTIMORE MUSE
Weaver's Personal Blog
Poets & Writers City Guides by Ifeanyi Mentiki
"Looking at Boston, I think of the story of Afaa Michael Weaver, a black man and a poet who lives in the area and teaches at Simmons College. It is a story that reminds us of the reasons why literature still matters. Born in Baltimore, with poverty all around him...Weaver’s story is the story of one man, but also the story of literature. The American is there, so is the black American. The global is also there, by way of the Chinese. And it is a Boston story all the way."
"...Afaa Weaver is the African American successor to Walt Whitman..." The Taipei Times. July 8, 2007
師爺黃乾量 Shiye Huang Chien Liang Afaa's Teacher in the Daoist Internal Arts, the Tien Shan Pai Assoc.
Boston Globe
"A poet forged in heartbreak" article by Dave Aucoin
POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2007 COVER STORY
The Path of Creation
Interview with Derek Alger
from Answers.com
WEAVER'S BIO
Alexander Street Press Black Drama
Weaver's unpublished plays are available at Alexander Street Press
The New York Review of Books October 14, 2010
"In the Life of The Wire" a review of the HBO television program and books about it. by Lorrie Moore
"(Afaa) Michael Weaver is expanding the great tradition in American parlance and song. He strives for deep resonance of American Grand Opera, in the Whitman tradition. ..His poems are incremental revelations, his own poetic music. It is a fine rhetorical striving, undiminished." --Michael S. Harper commenting on "My Father's Geography" 1992
THE NEW POETS CAFE
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AWP Chicago Reading on You Tube: "The Interpretation of Tongues"
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U.S. Kuoshu Academy
Shiye Huang Chien Liang
Baltimore, Maryland
Poetry Speaks
Weaver recites several poems recorded at Simmons College in Boston.
"A Weaver of Disparate Strands" by Ellen Steinbaum Boston Globe February 4, 2006
Cave Canem Retreat for Black Poets
Review of Talisman by Kalamu Ya Salaam in African american Literature Book Club
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The Plum Flower Dance is organized according to Chinese philosophy.

Nonfiction
These Hands I Know
Finalist for the Multicultural Book Award
Poetry
Multitudes
"...Afaa Weaver is of the same vintage as Rita Dove... Multitudes announces Weaver's Brooks-like transformation from curator of a vital 'museum' to composer of revitalizing 'music'; the sounds of a tradition renewing itself."
--George Elliot Clarke, African American Review
Stations in a Dream
“[Weaver] ...is one of the most important poets of his generation.”

Readings and Appearances

Afaa Weaver works with poets in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. This photo is from the October 2008 festival he convened at Simmons College. Photo by Don West

NOVEMBER
9th to 12th
Reading and Classroom Visits
University of Oklahoma


DECEMBER
2nd
Reading with January Gill O'Neill
Grolier Bookshop
7 pm

3-4th
Nantucket Reading Series

10th
Grace Paley Memorial Reading
Harvard Epworth Church
1555 Mass Ave Harvard Square
4 pm

17th
Reading with Rafael Alvarez
Enoch Pratt Free Library
Main Branch
Details Available from Enoch Pratt
http:/​/​www.prattlibrary.org/​


2012

JANUARY
13th
Reading for Mass Fulbright Organization
and Howard Gotlieb Archives at Boston U.


18th
Reading with Willie Perdomo
Page Meets Stage series at the Bowery Poetry Club
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MARCH THRU APRIL.... I WILL BE
TRAVELING IN CHINA, TAIWAN, & MACAU
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MAY
Reading with January Gill O'Neill
Somerville Armory
7 pm


SEPTEMBER
Reading for Bob Holman's Bowery Poetry Club
Details in Development
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The Plum Flower Dance/poems 1985 to 2005 (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2007). This collection surveys twenty years of Weaver's published work, beginning with his first book of poems, Water Song (U Press of Virginia, 1985). The poems are arranged according to the 5 element theory in Chinese philosophy in order to show the ways in which childhood trauma has affected his writing and his life.

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Taipei Times 2002