Re: Pegasus 1976 literary journal / Ahmos Zu-Bolton

[email protected] (HarryLime) posted:
> Will Dockery wrote:
> >> [email protected] (HarryLime) posted:
>>>> Will Dockery wrote:
> 
> >>> I've posted the proof that Ahmos Zu-Bolton was the Poet-in-Residence at Carver High School, as shown by his introduction to Pegasus '76 written in spring of 1976.
> >>> 
> >>> The evidence (the yearbook) shows that Zu-Bolton did not work at Carver High at any time during the 1975-76 school year.
> >>> 
> >> I think that was a mistake of the yearbook staff, they accidentally left Ahmos Zu-Bolton out.
> >> 
> >>> The "Introduction" (inexplicably submitted in the form of a letter), is not admissible as evidence.  However, it shows that Zu-Bolton had *nothing* to do with the magazine.  He specifically states that he kept his distance from it.
> >>> 
> >>> So the evidence shows that he was not the "Poet-in-Residence" at Carver High, and that he did not have anything to do with the school magazine, other than to supply an introduction.
> >>> 
> >>> I believe your story that Dan Barfield introduced him as "Poet-in-Residence."  He used that title in his letter (Introduction) as well.
> >>> 
> >>> But the title is that of his position at Howard University -- where he was employed throughout the 1975-76 school year.
> >>
> >> Okay, that does make sense, except for why Howard University isn't mentioned.
> >
> > George Dance posted that Zu-Bolton was employed at Howard University then.
> 
> "From 1973 to 1976 he worked for the Humanities Resources Center,[4] or African-American Resources Center,[2] of Howard University in Washington, D.C.. There he came into contact with Stephen E. Henderson, E. Ethelbert Miller, and other writers, who encouraged him to publish HooDoo.[4]"

"To 1976." 

Ahmos Zu-Bolton was at Carver High School in May of 1976, apparently after that.

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