powerful and empowering," [George Elliott] Clarke wrote in his email [on Maxine Tynes]. "She took all of her identities--woman, Black, Native/Aboriginal, differently-abled, and made undying poetry out of them all. She is one of the few poets who, when she was able to perform publicly, would electrify everyone and dignify formerly voiceless communities. She brought passion and life to the concerns and persons that she wrote about."Her tradition was 'Beat'; she was in the mode of Allen Ginsberg and Leonard Cohen, but also Afro-American poets like Gwendolyn Brooks.
"Crucially, she was a poet savvy with communications, with media: she appreciated radio, television, mass media in general, and wrote poems based on them."
from Chronicle Herald: Poet, teacher Maxine Tynes dies at 62
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