Abstract
Dynamic: the word immediately describes Sonia Sanchez and her art. Petite, attractive, her diminutive size, like that of actress Vinie Burrows, seems to acquire physical volume on stage. Born to Wilson L. and the late Lena (Jones) Driver on September 9, 1934, in Birmingham, Alabama, Sanchez was named Wilsonia after her father who had wanted a boy. She has an older sister, Patricia. Her half-brother, Wilson S. Driver, Jr., about whom she is writing, died in 1981. At the age of nine, Sanchez moved to New York, where she attended elementary school, junior high, and George Washington High School. She was graduated from Hunter College in 1955. Selected for a poetry workshop, she studied at New York University with Louise Bogan, for whom she has the highest respect. Her daughter, Anita Sanchez, product of an early marriage, was born on May 24, 1957. The twin sons, Morani Meusi (Black Warrior in Swahili) and Mungu Meusi (Black God) were born on January 26, 1968. Sanchez has taught at several colleges, including San Francisco State (1967-69); University of Pittsburgh (1969-70); Rutgers University (197071); Manhattan Community College (1971-73; Amherst College (197376). At Temple University, where she has been teaching since 1977, currently as Associate Professor, her courses include creative writing, Black Literature, and Women's Studies. She has taught at Graterford Prison as part of a community writing program since fall 1980. In our, interview, April 1, 1981, at the Statler Hilton, New York, where she was staying for the Fifth Annual Conference of the National Council for Black Studies, she discussed her love of teaching:
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