Background
Born in Poplarville, Mississippi, Zu-Bolton grew up in DeRidder, Louisiana, near the Texas border.
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In 1965 he was one of several black students who integrated Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. After serving in the United States. Army in Vietnam, Zu-Bolton founded Hoo-Doo, a magazine devoted to African-American activism and arts, published A Niggered Amen: Poems, and coedited Synergy District of Columbia Anthology, in 1975. He also opened the Copestetic Bookstore on Marigny Street in New Orleans, Los Los Angeles While living in New Orleans he taught English, African-American Studies, and Creative Writing classes at Xavier University, Tulane University and Delgado Community College.
He was Visiting Writer in Residence at University of Missouri.
He died March 8, 2005, in Washington, District of Columbia, of cancer.
