A Notebook on Black Boys, Black Men & Creativity

2025

• July 3: Reading with First-Semester Collegiate Black Men

2024

• September 21: Farah Jasmine Griffin, Amiri Baraka, and Collegiate Black Men

• August 28: Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka, and ....

2023

• December 9: And yet more on "The Lost Boys"

• August 11: Reading Reginald Harris's "The Lost Boys" a little earlier

• August 1: Notebook on Literary Studies and Collegiate Black Men

• June 23: Collegiate black men and poetry

2022

• September 29: Covering Amiri Baraka's "Dope" with Collegiate Black Men

2020

• June 1: Covering volumes of poetry with collegiate black men

2019

• June 18: Nikki Giovanni, collegiate black men, and power poses

2018
• December 31: Reading Bryan Hill in 2018

• April 30: Why Langston Hughes, Adrian Matejka appeal to high school black boys, collegiate black men

• March 5: Black writers and Basquiat

• February 4: Collegiate black men, rap courses, and active participation

• January 10: From Amiri Baraka and Greg Tate to a generation of black men writers

2017

• December 5: Eugene B. Redmond meets with first-year collegiate black men

• August 10: Adrian Matejka--sampling a black interstellar history in verse

• July 16: Why collegiate black men value Adrian Matejka's Jack Johnson poems

• February 13: Histories of highly intelligent black males in fictional representations

2016
• July 15: Humor and contemporary black men writers
• May 29: Black men writers and creativity, 1995 - 2016

2015

• September 26: Covering Robert Hayden's "The Whipping" with young black men

• May 24: Jay Z and the freestyle as mode of critique and creativity 

• May 12: Digital Creativity: Tyehimba Jess's "Another Man Done"  
• May 9: 6 reasons why poets like bad boys  
• May 7: Poetry, bad men, and intellectual histories    

• April 27: Thinking about Collegiate Black Men Writing about Poetry

• March 9: Poetry, humor, and creativity 

• March 8: Black Poets, Bad Men, and Creativity 
• March 7: Jay Z & Jean-Michel Basquiat as poets 
• February 4: Amiri Baraka and Outness 
• January 25: Malcolm X -- the poetic anti-poet, who was also a poet
• January 19: Black men, poetry, music & inspiration
• January 6: Poetry and Ingenuity: Tyehimba Jess and #BlackPoetsSpeakOut 

2014

• December 16: Studying Poetry & Rap with Collegiate Black Men in 2014

• October 13: Poetry & shifting views of Jack Johnson among collegiate black men

2013

• December 30: Reading The Big Smoke with Collegiate Black Men

• December 11: Do black men and women college students respond differently to poetry?

• November 1: The vulnerability of collegiate black men & a note on a Jack Johnson poem

2012 
• August 6: Kyle Baker, Reginald Hudlin, and Rob Guillory 
• July 24: Poetry, Slavery & Creativity
• January 29: Black Boys and the Golden Age of Hip Hop
• January 28: Black Boys, Imagination & Dungeons and Dragons 
• January 24: Zombie movies, black boys & imagination
• January 23: Black Boys, Imagination, and Star Wars 

2011
• December 10: Collegiate Black Men, Rap, and Poetry

• June 28: The Remarkable Ingenuity (and indifference) of Amiri Baraka

Related:
• Assorted notebooks
• Knowledge, Creativity, and Collegiate Black Men