found: The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, accessed March 10, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Touré, Askia M.; poet, community activist, lecturer, educator; born 13 October 1938 in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States; one of the original articulators of the Black Arts movement; a contributing editor for the magazine “Black Dialogue”, an editor at large for the “Journal of Black Poetry” (late 1960s through the mid 1970s); studied painting at the Arts Students League, New York (1960); black-run Third World Press published his long poem “Juju: Magic Songs for the Black Nation”, which pays homage to saxophonist John Coltrane (1970); published “Songhai!”, a collection of poems and sketches (1973); left for Philadelphia (1974); his work culminated in “From the Pyramid to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance”, a collection of poems for which he won the American Book Award (1989); the book was the first American Book Award winner that has as its theme black genocide; taught at Clark Atlanta University; a dominant force in shaping and organizing the city's National Black Arts Festival (since 1988))