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<p><font color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="3"><b>Honoree
Fanonne Jeffers</b></font></font></p>
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<td colspan="2" height="278"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Honoree
Fanonne Jeffers, Asst. Professor of English, is the author of
two books of poetry, <i>The Gospel of Barbecue</i> (Kent State
University, 2000), which won the 1999 Stan and Tom Wick Prize
for Poetry and was the finalist for the 2001 Paterson Poetry,
and <i>Outlandish Blues</i>, forthcoming from Wesleyan University
Press in 2003. She has won the 2002 Julia Peterkin Award for
Poetry, and awards from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and
the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Prof. Jeffers' work recently has
appeared in <i>Black Issues Book Review</i>, <i>Black Warrior
Review</i>, <i>Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Liter
ature</i>, <i>Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam</i> (Crown,
2001), <i>Callaloo</i>, <i>Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative
Fiction from the African Diaspora </i>(Warner/Aspect, 2000),
<i>Indiana Review</i>, <i>The Kenyon Review</i>, <i>The Massachusetts
Review</i>, <i>Ploughshares</i>, <i>Prairie Schooner</i>, <i>Roll
Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black
Literature and Art</i> (Third World, 2002), and <i>These Hands
I Know: Writing About the African American Family </i>(Sarabande
2002). She is at work on a third book of poetry and her first
book of collected fiction.</font></td>
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