Black Notes by Cheryl R. Hopson, PhD

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Black Notes

by Cheryl R. Hopson, PhD

$14, paper

Cheryl R. Hopson’s poetry shows the influence of years of reading, living, thinking through and imagining what it means to be a girl and woman, a person of color, a Southerner, a feminist scholar of working-class origins, and a poet. The daughter of a mother who was and continues to be an enthusiastic and avid reader, Cheryl understood early on the beauty and significance of the written word. She began writing and reading poetry at twelve years old, after discovering the fiction of Maya Angelou and the poetry of Nikki Giovanni. Cheryl’s love of words led to her earning a doctorate in English from the University of Kentucky in 2008. She is currently an assistant professor of African American literature at Georgia Regents University in Augusta, Georgia, where she teaches courses in 20th century African American literature, composition, and humanities. In her scholarly work she explores images of the mother and the mother/daughter relationship in the creative, memoir, and theoretical writings of Black and Black-identified women. She writes and publishes on intergenerational Black feminisms, 20th Century Black Women’s fiction and nonfiction writings, and womanist/feminist “sisterhood”. Cheryl is from Roanoke, Virginia, and makes her home in Augusta, Georgia and Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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