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Albany, NY – In today's Academic Minute, Dr. Leonard Slade Jr. of the University at Albany discusses the importance of poetry.
Dr. Slade has authored a dozen books of poetry. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Slade teaches in the Africana studies and English departments.
Dr. Slade's research interests include black American poetry, black essays, George Moses Horton (the first black poet of the South), and l9th century American literature, particularly author Herman Melville.
Music: Poets of the Fall - The Poet and the Muse