"Amelia Blossom Pegram is one of my favorite poets! Her poems of life remembered in South AFrica and life lived in the United States are a bridge 'across a thousand hills' of black sisterhood."
      —Stephanie Stokes Oliver

"Life is lived on peaks and valleys, one hill rolling in upon another thousandfold. At any given moment one is the total embodiment of all of one's experiences. Echoes of the past intertwine with sounds of the present. The poems in ECHOES ACROSS A THOUSAND HILLS come from the feminine first person of the poet, but they also reach out to others through universally shared emotions of anger, sorrow, mourning and calm, joy and celebration; shared relationships with elders, peers, children, lovers and warriors."
      —Keith Henry Brown, Editory of Action PACT Magazine

AMELIA BLOSSOM PEGRAM studied at the University of Cape Town, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the University of Leeds and the University of Louisville. She has internationally published poems, short stories, critical essays, book reviews, and theater criticism. Her work has been translated into several languages. Her dramatic works include "You've Struck a Rock" performed at the Kentucky Center for the Arts, and a collaboration on the widely performed "And The Dance Goes On.' She has performed professionally in film, radio and stage.

SELMA WALDMAN completed studies in Berlin on a Fulbright grant. Her works are in the permanent collection of the Berlin Museum, Judische Abtelung, the Memorial Terrain Ghetto Museum (The Czech Republic), the Judah L. Magnes Museum (Berkeley, California), the national Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, DC) and various museums in the Southwest. Drawings of a progressive and feminist nature and for human rights causes, works documenting liberation movements and political prisoners, works exploring the effects of apartheid and war have been published in the U.S.A., Europe, Canada, India, Africa and the Mideast. Waldman lives and teaches in Seattle, Washington.

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Poetry/AFRICA