Celebrate Black History Month Goldtrap Lecture - The Poet as Prophet and Oracle

Ishmael Reed has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and twice nominated for the National Book Award. He is the author of more then 20 books including The Free-Lance Pallbearers ; The Terrible Twos; Japanese by Spring; The TerribleThrees ; Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down ); Flight To Canada; Mumbo Jumbo;and The Last Days of Louisiana Red. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth, and for twenty years he has been a lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley.