Tuesday, January 17, 2012

News at Eleven: In a lengthy dedication, he name-checks

no fewer than eight African-American men from the St. Louis region: the musicians Miles Davis, Hamiet Bluiett and Kelvyn Bell; the poets K. Curtis Lyle and Eugene B. Redmond; the artist Oliver Jackson; his cousin Donald Troupe; and his friend Donald M. Suggs, publisher of The St. Louis American.

"In this particular book, I really wanted to thank the people who really have supported me over the years," Troupe said.

from St. Louis Dispatch: Native poet Quincy Troupe thanks St. Louis friends in new collection, Erancities

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