# Afaa M. Weaver > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Afaa_M._Weaver > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Afaa_M._Weaver.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afaa_M._Weaver > Source revision: 1357043264 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American writer}} {{use mdy|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Afaa M. Weaver | image = Afaa Michael Weaver reading poetry.jpg | caption = Weaver reading poetry in 2013 | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1951}} | birth_place = [Baltimore](/source/Baltimore), Maryland | occupation = {{hlist|Poet|short-story writer|editor}} | known_for = | notable_works = | education = {{Unbulleted list|[Excelsior University](/source/Excelsior_University) {{Small|([B.A.](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts))}} |[Brown University](/source/Brown_University) {{Small|([M.A.](/source/Master_of_Arts))}} }} }} '''Afaa Michael Weaver''' (born 1951 in [Baltimore](/source/Baltimore), Maryland), formerly known as '''Michael S. Weaver''', is an American [poet](/source/poet), short-story writer, and editor. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, and his honors include a [Fulbright Scholarship](/source/Fulbright_Program) and fellowships from the [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts), [Pew Foundation](/source/The_Pew_Charitable_Trusts), and [Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award](/source/Kingsley_Tufts_Poetry_Award). He served as the Director of the Writing Intensive at [The Frost Place](/source/The_Frost_Place).{{cite web|title = Meet Afaa Michael Weaver, The Frost Place Writing Intensive Director|url = http://frostplace.org/portfolio/afaa-micheal-weaver/|website = The Frost Place|access-date = 2016-02-03|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160406185227/http://frostplace.org/portfolio/afaa-micheal-weaver/|archive-date = 2016-04-06|url-status = dead}}He has received the Wallace Stevens Award and is a Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets https://poets.org/poet/afaa-michael-weaver ==Life== Born in Maryland, he studied two years at the [University of Maryland](/source/University_of_Maryland). He started 7th Son Press and the literary journal ''Blind Alleys''. He graduated from [Brown University](/source/Brown_University) on a fellowship, with an M.A, and [Excelsior University](/source/Excelsior_University) with a B.A. He taught at [National Taiwan University](/source/National_Taiwan_University) and [Taipei National University of the Arts](/source/Taipei_National_University_of_the_Arts) as a Fulbright Scholar, and was a faculty member at the [Cave Canem Foundation](/source/Cave_Canem_Foundation)'s annual retreat. In addition, he was the first to be named an elder of the Cave Canem Foundation. He also studied Chinese language at the [Taipei Language Institute](/source/Taipei_Language_Institute) in [Taiwan](/source/Taiwan).{{cite web|url=http://aalbc.com/authors/afaa.htm |title=Bio |publisher=aalbc.com |date= |accessdate=2021-02-03}} He was Chairman of the Simmons International Chinese Poetry Conference. Tess Onwueme, the Nigerian playwright, gave him the Ibo name "Afaa", meaning "oracle", while Dr. Perng Ching-hsi has given him the Chinese name "Wei Yafeng".{{cite web|url=https://poets.org/poet/afaa-michael-weaver|title=About Afaa Michael Weaver | Academy of American Poets|first=Academy of American|last=Poets|website=poets.org}} His poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''[Callaloo](/source/Callaloo_(literary_magazine))''.{{Cite web |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fcallaloo%2Fv022%2F22.4weaver.html |title=Project MUSE - Login |access-date=2021-04-01 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194216/http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fcallaloo%2Fv022%2F22.4weaver.html |url-status=dead }} ==Honors and awards== * 2023 Wallace Stevens Award{{cite news|title=Academy of American Poets Announces Recipients of 2023 American Poetry Prizes|url=https://poets.org/academy-american-poets-announces-recipients-2023-american-poets-prizes|accessdate=21 September 2023|website=Academy of American Poets.|date=19 September 2023}} * 2014 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award{{cite news|last=Rothman|first=Lily|title=Meet the Former Factory Worker Who Just Won a $100,000 Poetry Prize|url=https://time.com/22229/poet-afaa-michael-weaver/|access-date=13 March 2014|newspaper=Time|date=March 12, 2014}} * 2002 Fulbright Scholarship{{cite web|url=http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir01/Crea14.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100502075927/http://www.cies.org/schlr_directories/usdir01/Crea14.htm|url-status=dead|title=Fulbright Scholar Program > 2001 - 2002 U.S. Scholar Directory|archivedate=May 2, 2010}} * 1985 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship * 1998 [Pew Fellowships in the Arts](/source/Pew_Fellowships_in_the_Arts) ==Published works== '''Full-length poetry collections''' * [https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-fire-in-the-hills-afaa-m-weaver/18735123?ean=9781636280820 ''A Fire in the Hills''] (Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2023) * [https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Boxing-Poetry-Michael-Weaver/dp/0822964589 ''Spirit Boxing''] (Pitt Poetry Series, 2017) * [https://www.amazon.com/City-Eternal-Spring-Poetry-Series/dp/0822963256 ''The City of Eternal Spring''](Pitt Poetry Series, 2014) * [http://centralsquarepress.com/weaver.html ''A Hard Summation''] (Central Square Press, 2014) * [https://www.amazon.com/Government-Nature-Pitt-Poetry/dp/0822962314/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415590321&sr=1-2 ''The Government of Nature''] (Pitt Poetry Series, 2013) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100620031628/http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=35884 ''The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005''] (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007) * {{cite book| title=Multitudes| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3UhuEjPi55IC&q=Afaa+M.+Weaver&pg=PA114| publisher=Sarabande Books| year=2000| isbn=978-1-889330-41-9 }} * {{cite book| title=The Ten Lights of God| publisher=Bucknell University Press | date=February 2000| isbn=978-0-8387-5434-4 }} * ''Timber and Prayer: The Indian Pond Poems'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995) * ''My Father’s Geography'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992) * {{cite book| title=Water Song | publisher=University Press of Virginia| year=1985 }} Callaloo series * {{cite book| title=Sandy Point| publisher=The Press of Appletree Alley | place=Lewisburg, Pennsylvania| others=Engravings Rosalyn Richards }} '''Plays''' * ''Rosa'' was produced in 1993 at Venture Theater in Philadelphia '''Anthologies edited''' *{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/thesehandsiknowa00weav| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/thesehandsiknowa00weav/page/135 135]| quote=Afaa M. Weaver.| title=These hands I know: African-American writers on family| editor=Afaa Michael Weaver| publisher=Sarabande Books| year=2002| isbn=978-1-889330-72-3 }} '''Anthology publications''' *{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l0gDLbXHAYwC&q=Afaa+M.+Weaver&pg=PT61| chapter=My Father's Geography| title=The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry|editor1=Arnold Rampersad |editor2=Hilary Herbold| publisher=Oxford University Press US| year=2006| isbn=978-0-19-512563-4 }} *{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=26VzZYQBSpYC&q=Afaa+M.+Weaver&pg=PA243| chapter=Eighteen| title=Teaching about Violence Against Women| editor=Mona Eliasson| publisher=Feminist Press| year=1999| isbn=978-1-55861-211-2 }} *{{cite book| title=Children of the night: the best short stories by Black writers, 1967 to the present| editor=Gloria Naylor| publisher=Little, Brown and Co.| year=1997| isbn=978-0-316-59923-8| url=https://archive.org/details/childrenofnight00glor}} *{{cite book| title=Identity lessons: contemporary writing about learning to be American|editor1=Maria M. Gillan |editor2=Jennifer Gillan| publisher=Penguin Books| year=1999| isbn=978-0-14-027167-6| url=https://archive.org/details/identitylessonsc00gill}} ==References== {{reflist}} ==Sources== * [http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=afaa+m.+weaver&Search_Code=GKEY^*&CNT=100&hist=1&type=quick Library of Congress Online Catalog > Afaa M. Weaver] ==External links== * Author Profile: {{cite news| url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/02/05/a_weaver_of_disparate_strands/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012092724/http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/02/05/a_weaver_of_disparate_strands/| url-status=dead| archive-date=October 12, 2008| title=A weaver of disparate strands| author=Ellen Steinbaum| work=The Boston Globe | date=February 5, 2006 }} * [http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/32/weaver.html Audio: ''The Cortland Review'' > Issue 32, June 2006 > ''Zombie Dance/Tapping The Blood Root'' by Afaa M. Weaver] * [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article-detail.cfm?intArticleID=7535 Criticism: ''Ploughshares'' > Fall 2002 > A Review by Afaa M. Weaver of ''Leaving Saturn'' by Major Jackson] Sarah Lawrence Faculty Profile. https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/faculty/weaver-afaa.html Guggenheim Fellow Profile https://www.gf.org/fellows/afaa-m-weaver/ Hopkins Review Interview: https://hopkinsreview.com/features/in-conversation-with-afaa-m-weaver Review of The Plum Flower Trilogy: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/convergence-personal-political-spiritual-poetry-afaa-michael-weavers-plum-flower-trilogy {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Weaver, Afaa M.}} Category:1951 births Category:Living people Category:American male poets Category:Writers from Baltimore Category:Poets from Maryland Category:National Endowment for the Arts Fellows Category:Simmons University faculty Category:Excelsior College alumni Category:Brown University alumni Category:Pew Fellows in the Arts Category:University of Maryland, College Park alumni Category:United States Army soldiers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Afaa M. 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