Afaa Michael Weaver (Michael S. Weaver) 蔚雅風

Weaver's Personal Blog

"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."

"A poet forged in heartbreak" article by Dave Aucoin

The Path of Creation

WEAVER'S BIO

Weaver's unpublished plays are available at Alexander Street Press

"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

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

Weaver recites several poems recorded at Simmons College in Boston.