Durward Blackshear Collins Jr.
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Durward Blackshear Collins Jr. (July 11, 1937 – April 12, 1987) was an American poet.
Collins was born on July 11, 1937, in Houston, Texas.[1] He was photographed by Carl Van Vechten on September 5, 1962.[2] Collins died in Nyack, New York on April 12, 1987, at the age of 49.[3]
Professional career
[edit]His poem "Temperate Belt: Reflections on the Mother of Emmett Till" was published in Words of protest, words of freedom: poetry of the American civil rights movement and era[4] and In Beyond the Blues: New Poems by American Negroes.[5]
He won the Hopwood Minor Award for Poetry from the University of Michigan in 1959.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Durward Blackshear Collins". Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903–1997. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
- ^ Van Vechten, Carl (1962-09-05). "Collins, Durward Jr".
- ^ "Durward B. Collins Jr". The Journal News. 13 April 1987. p. 10. Retrieved 20 January 2022.
- ^ Coleman, Jeffrey Lamar (2012). Words of protest, words of freedom: poetry of the American civil rights movement and era. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-5092-7. OCLC 858145345.
- ^ Pollack, Harriet; Metress, Christopher (2008-01-01). Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3281-4.
- ^ "Collins, Durward - Yale University Library". 130.132.49.167. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
- ^ University of Michigan. (n.d.) Hopwinnyearall.pdf. Ann Arbor.https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/hopwood-assets/Hopwinnyearall.pdf