The Kwansaba is an African American verse form of praise created in 1995 by Eugene B.
Redmond, East St.
Louis Poet Laureate and professor of English at Southern Illinois-East St.
Louis.
The poems honor Kwanzaa, a celebration of family and African American culture, and praise writers such as Richard Wright and Sonia Sanchez.
The poetic style of the Kwansaba utilizes the number seven, the numeric foundation of Kwanzaa.
Thus, a Kwansaba is a heptastich, a poem of seven lines, with seven.
New World Press, Inc. Kwansabas and other poems, hardcover/steven c. thedford
