Born in 1955 in Rheinberg, Germany, and raised in Westphalia, Eva-Maria Houben’s musical career commenced at the age of 12 when she began playing organ in Sunday services at the church where her father worked as a presbyter. Subsequently working as a teacher at both school and university level, she has written numerous books of […]
Author Archives: David Grundy
David Grundy is the author of “A Black Arts Poetry Machine: Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Poets” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and coeditor, with Lauri Scheyer, of “Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton” (Wesleyan University Press, forthcoming). He is currently a British Academy Fellow at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, where he is working on two manuscripts, “Survival Music: Free Jazz Then and Now,” and “Never by Itself Alone: Queer Poetry in Boston and San Francisco, 1943–Present” (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and a further edited collection on Umbra.