Career
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Manpower Program, Detroit, MI, teacher, 1964-66; Farand School, Detroit, teacher of the mentally and emotionally retarded, 1966-68; Jefferson School, Teaneck, NJ, remedial reading teacher, 1969-70; New Jersey State Council on the Arts, poet in residence for Poet-in-the-Schools program, 1974-88, master teacher, 1984-88; Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, associate professor of creative writing and minority literature, 1988-90; George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Commonwealth Professor, 1990-91; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, associate professor, 1991—. New York University, visiting professor, 1992; has served on the faculty of Squaw Valley Community of Writers, 1992, Suncoast Florida Writers' Conference, University of South Florida, 1993, and the Charleston Writers' Conference, College of Charleston, 1993. Guest poet and lecturer at numerous colleges and universities; featured poet in readings at more than one hundred theaters, museums, bookstores, and libraries. Educational consultant, Columbia University, 1979-82; founder of African American poet retreat, 1996—; implementer of workshop, "Freeing the Voice in a Racist Society," Goddard College, summer, 1997. Member of editorial staff, New York Quarterly, 1973-77.
