Lorenzo Thomas
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Lorenzo Thomas (August 31, 1944 - July 4, 2005) was an American poet and critic.
He was born in Panama and grew up in New York City, where his family immigrated in 1948.
Thomas moved to Houston, Texas, in 1973.
Thomas served as a professor at the University of Houston–Downtown for two decades.
Early life
Thomas was born in Panama to Afro-Caribbean parents. His father, a pharmacist, was from Saint Vincent, and Luzmilda, a community activist, was born in Costa Rica. Sadie Clemencia Dolphy, the mother of musician Eric Dolphy, was the sister of her sister. He attended Duke Ellington Elementary School as a child in New York (P.S.). 140;) Edgar D. Shimer Junior High School (P.S.) (P.U.) (142); and Andrew Jackson High School.
Thomas obtained a B.A. from Queens College in New York. (Radio and Television) A Minor in English Literature, as well as a minor in History & Communication Arts. He aspired to an M.L.S. in graduate school. At the Pratt Institute. He attended the Umbra Workshop in New York during his time as a child, and was one of the youngest participants. The Umbra Workshop brought young writers to New York City's Lower East Side in search of their artistic voices. It served as a crucible for young black poets, including Ishmael Reed, David Henderson, and Calvin C. Hernton. The workshop was one of the first major African-American cultural movement since the Harlem Renaissance. The workshop was one of the currents that fueled the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s, the first big African-American artistic movement after the Harlem Renaissance.
Career
Thomas moved to Houston in 1973 as the writer-in-residence at Texas Southern University. He edited Roots, a Texas Southern University undergraduate. I started teaching English at the University of Houston-Downtown in 1984 and spent more than two decades as a professor of English. He served as Writer in Residence at Texas Southern University, Florida A & M University; the State of Arkansas; and the state of Oklahoma from 1973 to 1979.
Thomas has also contributed to the study of African-American literature.
Among other things, he published Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and Twenty-Century American Poetry, a literary survey that included James Fenton and Amiri Baraka.