Sonia Sanchez is an American poet and activist most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. She has authored over a dozen books of poetry, as well as plays and children's books. She was a 1993 Pew Fellow in the Arts.

 

During her Blues for Smoke interview, Sonia Sanchez was in full poetic form, reciting some of her very own Blues lyrics and playing with words in a way as to underscore the modern Blues sensibility.  Sanchez illuminates the importance of "the train" in both the literal and figurative sense of the Blues.  The sit-down with Sonia Sanchez revealed a connection between the contemporary relevance of the Blues and that of the time-tested Japanese Haiku.

 

Talent: Sonia Sanchez

Producers: Jeremy Berry and Eugenia Marshall

Editor: Travon Brumfield

Camera: Bernell De'Shaun Jones

Coordinator: Maleena Lawrence

 

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