Sonia Sanchez

Hello my name is Samantha. My blog is about one of my favorite artist Sonia Sanchez. Sonia Sanchez is a great poet, mother, activist, professor, and international lecturer of women's liberation, peace, and racial peace.Wilsonia Berita Driver known as Sonia Sanchez was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Her Father was a musician and a teacher, that's where she gets her talent from. Her mother died when Sanchez was just a baby. She was raised by her grandmother who taught her strength and show her unconditional love. After her grandmother passed, at the age of six she started to write poetry.

When Sanchez was nine she and her older sister went to Harlem, New York to live with their father. After graduating high school she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Hunter College, She also took several creative writing courses. She did post - graduate work at New York University and studied poetry. Sanchez poems talks about the struggles and lives of blacks. Also about whites, men, women, different cultures. She has traveled to places like Africa, Cuba, England, The Caribbean, Australia, Norway, and even Canada reading her poetry. Because of her poetry she has won awards like The Outstanding Arts Award, The Peace and Freedom Award, and the Langston Hughes Poetry Award just to name a few.

She is not just a poet she is also a teacher. She has lectured at more than eight universities and five hundred colleges. In her lifetime she has author over a dozen books of poetry, published seven plays, three children books and two anthologies. Sanchez was a very influential part of the Civil Rights Movement and also the Black Arts Movement. Sonia Sanchez is considered one of the most important figures in African American Literature. She is now retired with three children and three grandchildren and is living in Philadelphia.