She lives in Indianapolis.
http://aalbc.com/authors/mari.htm
(photo, covers, book descriptions, a few poems)
http://www.answers.com/topic/mari-evans
(long biography)
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/470
(short bio)
"Her books for children include Dear Corinne, Tell Somebody! Love,
Annie: A Book about Secrets (1999), Singing Black: Alternative Nursery
Rhymes for Children (1998, illustrated by Ramon Price) Jim Flying High
(1979, illustrated by Ashley Bryan), Rap Stories (1974), and J.D.
(1973, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney)."
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=MARI+EVANS&gbv=2
(photos)
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=%22mari%20evans%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
(December 2007 video interview, 10 minutes long)
From "Black Women Writers":
"Idiom is larger than geography; it is the hot breath of a people--
singing, sla****ng, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator,
the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars,
the connective currents that nod Black heads from Maine to Mississippi
to Montana. No there ain't nothin universal about it. So when I write,
I write reaching for all that. Reaching for what will nod Black heads
over common denominators. . . . If there are those outside the Black
experience who hear the music and can catch the beat, that is
serendipity; I have no objections. But when I write, I write according
to the title of poet Margaret Walker's classic: 'for my people.'"
Lenona.
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