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Description

1. 0.8 linear feet (2 archival boxes)

Summary

1. The Cheryl Boyce Taylor papers, 1982-2014, partially document the artistic and personal life of poet, visual and teaching artist, Cheryl Boyce Taylor. The collection contains manuscripts, drafts, correspondence, interview transcripts, programs, flyers, clippings, and ephemera.

Subject

1. African American women authors
2. African Americans > Race identity
3. Clippings
4. African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Poetry
5. United States > Race relations
6. Correspondence
7. Erotic literature writers
8. Boyce-Taylor, Cheryl, 1950-
9. African American lesbians
10. Poetry
11. Fiction
12. Interviews
13. African American theatrical producers and directors
14. African American women poets
15. Lesbian authors
16. Black author
17. Women poets, Caribbean

Genre/Form

1. Fiction.
2. Poetry.
3. Interviews.
4. Correspondence.
5. Clippings.

Call number

1. Sc MG 919

Note

1. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.

Source (note)

1. Cheryl Boyce-Taylor

Biography (note)

1. Cheryl Boyce-Taylor was born in Arima, Trinidad, and migrated to St. Albans Queens at the age of thirteen. Boyce-Taylor attended a Seventh Day Adventist high school in the Bronx, and completed undergraduate studies at City College of New York. Boyce-Taylor later completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine, Stonecast. She married Walt Taylor at the age of 19, and gave birth to her son, Malik Isaac, a year later. In the early 1970s, she formed the Boyce-Taylor Theatrical Company and began performing her poetry. She began taking her poetry more seriously after completing a course at Hunter College with Audre Lorde during this same time period. Boyce-Taylor has published several full-length poetry monographs including: "As A Woman I Laugh and Cry&Poems", "Birthsounds, Rhythms and other Contractions", "Convincing the Body", and "Raw Air". Her work has been featured in magazines and journals such as "Callaloo", in addition to her notable work with choreographer, Ron K. Brown's Evidence Dance Company.

Provenance (note)

1. The collection was held and maintained by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor until its donation to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Author

1. Boyce-Taylor, Cheryl, 1950-

Title

1. Cheryl Boyce-Taylor papers, 1982-2014 (bulk 1997-2014)

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet
2. volume

Biography

1. Cheryl Boyce-Taylor was born in Arima, Trinidad, and migrated to St. Albans Queens at the age of thirteen. Boyce-Taylor attended a Seventh Day Adventist high school in the Bronx, and completed undergraduate studies at City College of New York. Boyce-Taylor later completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine, Stonecast. She married Walt Taylor at the age of 19, and gave birth to her son, Malik Isaac, a year later. In the early 1970s, she formed the Boyce-Taylor Theatrical Company and began performing her poetry. She began taking her poetry more seriously after completing a course at Hunter College with Audre Lorde during this same time period. Boyce-Taylor has published several full-length poetry monographs including: "As A Woman I Laugh and Cry&Poems", "Birthsounds, Rhythms and other Contractions", "Convincing the Body", and "Raw Air". Her work has been featured in magazines and journals such as "Callaloo", in addition to her notable work with choreographer, Ron K. Brown's Evidence Dance Company.

Provenance

1. The collection was held and maintained by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor until its donation to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Connect to:

1. Finding aid

Local subject

1. Black author.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 919