Background
Arthur Flowers was born in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
Arthur Flowers
Arthur Flowers performing
Arthur Flowers
Arthur Flowers performs from 'I See the Promised Land: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr'
(A charming, provocative novel in which Mr. Flowers seamle...)
A charming, provocative novel in which Mr. Flowers seamlessly blends the rich rythms of the blues and a Deep South patois in a lyrical, literate style.
https://www.amazon.com/Another-Loving-Blues-Arthur-Flowers/dp/0670848212/?tag=2022091-20
1993
(When Cleveland Lee says he wants to play trumpet in his s...)
When Cleveland Lee says he wants to play trumpet in his sister's marching band, everyone laughs and says he's too young. Then one of the grand old bluesmen of Beale Street show Cleveland how to play music straight from his heart--and all of Memphis takes notice.
https://www.amazon.com/Cleveland-Lees-Beale-Street-Band/dp/0816736537/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(Throughout history, gambling has served as the subject fo...)
Throughout history, gambling has served as the subject for hundreds of compelling and robust portrayals by celebrated artists such as Cézanne, Picasso, Van Gogh, Degas, de la Tour, Remington, and Neiman.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Gambling-Through-Ages/dp/0929712900/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(To create art that impacts the heart and mind of the comm...)
To create art that impacts the heart and mind of the community requires a vision. Realizing that vision is a lifelong journey. You must prepare yourself for the longgame, the longrun. Be religious about it.
https://www.amazon.com/Mojo-Rising-Confessions-Century-Conjureman/dp/0971581606/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(This stunning graphic novel biography of Martin Luther Ki...)
This stunning graphic novel biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. describes the apartheid South of his time, which in many ways was not very different from the early days of slavery.
https://www.amazon.com/See-Promised-Land-Martin-Luther/dp/1554983282/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(The Brer Rabbit stories were originally oral tales told b...)
The Brer Rabbit stories were originally oral tales told by slaves from the American South. In this powerful rendering for children and adults, writer and griot Arthur Flowers re-tells them as wisdom tales for a contemporary audience, bringing them back to us as one of the sturdy roots of African-American literature.
https://www.amazon.com/Brer-Rabbit-Retold-Arthur-Flowers/dp/9383145463/?tag=2022091-20
2017
Arthur Flowers was born in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
Arthur Flowers currently teaches at Syracuse University in the English Department’s MFA program in Creative Writing. He has also been Executive Director of the Harlem Writers Guild, the oldest organization of African-American writers founded in 1950.
Flowers is the author of novels and nonfictions, including Another Good Loving Blues, Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman, and the graphicwork, I See The Promised Land from Tara Books, India. He collaborated with Manu Chitrakar, a scroll-painter from Bengal, for this work.
Arthur is also a bluesbased performance poet in the griot style, a reference to the troubadours of West Africa that have been transmitting the history of their people in the oral tradition since the 14th century. Using spellbinding “performance poetry”, he accompanies his presentations with African instruments.
(Throughout history, gambling has served as the subject fo...)
2000(When Cleveland Lee says he wants to play trumpet in his s...)
1997(The Brer Rabbit stories were originally oral tales told b...)
2017(To create art that impacts the heart and mind of the comm...)
2001(This stunning graphic novel biography of Martin Luther Ki...)
2013(A charming, provocative novel in which Mr. Flowers seamle...)
1993Quotations: “There are those of us in African American literature who feel that we are heirs to two literary traditions, the western written tradition and the African oral one, and try in the fusion to contribute something to the evolution of both.”
Arthur Flowers is a founding member of the New Renaissance Writers Guild and the Pan African Literary Forum.