N. H. Pritchard

N. H. Pritchard
BornNorman Henry Pritchard
(1939-10-22)October 22, 1939.
DiedFebruary 8, 1996(1996-02-08) (aged 56)
Eastern Pennsylvania
Occupationpoet, artist
EducationNYU, Columbia

Norman Henry Pritchard (October 22, 1939 – February 8, 1996),[1] was an American poet.[2] He was a member of the Umbra poets, a collective of Black writers in Manhattan's Lower East Side founded in 1962.[3] Pritchard's avant-garde poetry often includes unconventional typography and spacing, as in "Harbour," or lack sentences entirely, as in " " ".[4]

  1. ^ Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism, Cambridge University Press, pp. 130-133, 136.
  2. ^ "N. H. Pritchard". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Magazine. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
  3. ^ Mentioned by James Hill writing about "Thomas Covington Dench", in Emmanuel Sampath Nelson (ed.), African American Dramatists: An A-To-Z Guide, Greenwood Press, 2004, p. 135.
  4. ^ Latimer, Quinn. "Ones and Zeroes". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved March 27, 2024.