Afaa Michael Weaver 蔚雅風

Poet, Playwright, Short Fiction Writer, Journalist, Editor, and Translator

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POETS & WRITERS MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2007 COVER STORY
The Path of Creation
from Answers.com
WEAVER'S BIO
Boston Globe
"A poet forged in heartbreak" article by Dave Aucoin
"...Afaa Weaver is the African American successor to Walt Whitman..." Ed Ochester quoted in article by Ron Brownlow. The Taipei Times. July 8, 2007
Interview with Derek Alger
EAST BALTIMORE MUSE BLOG
THE NEW POETS CAFE
AN ALL NEW POETS CAFE, A WEBSITE DEDICATED TO TRANSLATION OF POETRY
AWP Chicago Reading on You Tube: "The Interpretation of Tongues"
Academy of American Poets Profile
"(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
Shiye Huang Chien Liang
Afaa's Tai Chi Teacher
U.S. Kuoshu Academy
Shiye Huang Chien Liang
Baltimore, Maryland
Poetry Speaks
Weaver recites several poems recorded at Simmons College in Boston.
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Cave Canem Retreat for Black Poets
Review of Talisman by Kalamu Ya Salaam in African american Literature Book Club
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The Plum Flower Dance is organized according to Chinese philosophy.

Nonfiction
These Hands I Know
Finalist for the Multicultural Book Award
Poetry
Multitudes
"...Afaa Weaver is of the same vintage as Rita Dove... Multitudes announces Weaver's Brooks-like transformation from curator of a vital 'museum' to composer of revitalizing 'music'; the sounds of a tradition renewing itself."
--George Elliot Clarke, African American Review
Stations in a Dream
“[Weaver] ...is one of the most important poets of his generation.”

Readings and Appearances

Afaa Weaver works with poets in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. This photo is from the October 2008 festival he convened at Simmons College. Photo by Don West

2010

JULY
28th-31st
Clarksville Writers' Conference
Clarksville, Tennessee
host: Chris Burawa
http:/​/​www.artsandheritage.us/​writers

AUGUST
Thursday the 12th
Afaa M.Weaver and Dan Tobin. Each featured poet will read for
twenty-five minutes, followed by twenty-five minutes book signing
which will be followed by an Open Mike. FREE ADMISSION.
The Liberty Hotel is located at 215 Charles Street- about a three minute
walk from the Charles/​ MGH Red Line Station.


OCTOBER
23rd and 24th
Greenburgh, NY

29th
"Engaged Poetics"
panel discussion and reading
with Minnie Bruce Pratt
and Andy Croft
NYU’s Lillian Vernon House
2:00 in the afternoon

NOVEMBER
1st
Reading
Long Island University


18th
Reading
Houston, TX


DECEMBER
4th
Informal Talk
Simmons College
Alumnae Association Executive Board


JANUARY

6th to 9th
MLA Conference Los Angeles, CA
a panel devoted to my work
is being conducted by
Dr. Evie Shockley, poet and scholar
(day/​time to be announced)
The Plum Flower Dance/poems 1985 to 2005 (U of Pittsburgh Press, 2007). This collection surveys twenty years of Weaver's published work, beginning with his first book of poems, Water Song (U Press of Virginia, 1985). The poems are arranged according to the 5 element theory in Chinese philosophy in order to show the ways in which childhood trauma has affected his writing and his life.

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Taipei Times 2002