Career
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New Orleans Public Schools, elementary teacher; University of New Orleans—Lakefront, instructor in English and poetry; Colorado State University, associate instructor of English composition, 1976-78; University of California, Irvine, teaching assistant in poetry, writing instructor for remedial English composition, 1980; University of New Orleans, instructor in English composition and American literature, 1982-84; poet-in-the-schools, New Orleans, 1984-85; Indiana University at Bloomington, visiting assistant professor of English, 1985-86, associate professor of English and African-American Studies, 1986-93, professor of English and African-American Studies, 1993—; University of California, Berkeley, visiting professor of English, fall, 1991, Holloway lecturer, spring, 1992. UCCA and Riverrun, University of Colorado, editor, 1973-75; Gumbo: A Magazine for the Arts, co-editor and publisher, 1976-79; Indiana Review, administrative consultant; Callaloo, Johns Hopkins University, advisor. Military service: U.S. Army, 1965-67, served in Vietnam as an information specialist and as editor of the Southern Cross, a military newspaper; received the Bronze Star.
