Afaa Michael Weaver (Michael S. Weaver) 蔚雅風

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

FROM THE CORNER

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Weaver's unpublished plays are available at Alexander Street Press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

AN ALL NEW POETS CAFE, A WEBSITE DEDICATED TO TRANSLATION OF POETRY

AWP Chicago Reading on You Tube: "The Interpretation of Tongues"

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.”

Stations in a Dream

Lovers with Flowers

Can you contain my most intimate whisper,
settle it down after it has entered you,
make it a part of you and still cling
to my hand as gently as your eyes hold me?

Something must protect our weakness,
our mortality, and I choose the petal
and the leaf for their own transcience,
as life is emboldened by mortal fear.

In this light through this glass and wood,
I sleep confidently in your murmurs and dreams,
deaf to significance, delighting
in our petty island of flowers and silences.

You have turned my soul to blazing pith.