considered "an important addition" to the limited scholarly work on the subject of black women authors. Selected published works Poetry Where is all the Music? (1968) I am a Black Woman (1970) Nightstar 1973–1978 (1981) A Dark and Splendid Mass, Harlem River Press (1992) Continuum, Black Classic Press (2007) Children's books J.D. (1973) Look at Me! (1974) Rap Stories (1974) Singing Black: Alternative Nursery Rhymes for Children (1976) Jim Flying High (1979) Dear Corinne, Tell Somebody! Love, Annie: A Book About Secrets (1999) 'I'm Late': The Story of LaNeese and Moonlight and Alisha Who Didn't Have Anyone of Her Own, Just Us Books, (2006) Dramas River of My Song (1977)) Eyes Portrait of a Man (1979)) Boochie (1979)) The Pro (1979) New World (1984) Nonfiction Black Women Writers (1950–1980): A Critical Evaluation, New York: Doubleday (1984) Black Women Writers: Arguments and Interviews, London: Pluto Press (1984)) Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective: A Collection of Essays, Chicago: Third World Press (2006) Awards and honors John Hay Whitney fellowship, 1965–66 Woodrow Wilson Foundation grant, 1968 Indiana University Writers Conference Award, 1970 First Annual Poetry Award, Black Academy of Arts and Letters, 1970 Honorary doctorate in humane letters from Marian College, 1975 MacDowell fellowship Copeland fellowship, Amherst College, 1980 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Award, 1981 Featured on Ugandan postage stamp, 1997 Grammy Award nominatee for her liner notes to The Long Road Back to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music, 2002 African American Legacy Project of Northwest Ohio Legend Honoree, 2007 Indianapolis Public Library Foundation's Indiana Authors Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015 Mural of Evans by Michael "Alkemi" Jordan was installed on an exterior wall of a building along Massachusetts Avenue in Indianapolis, 2016 References Further reading External links Mari Evans papers, circa 1900-2012 at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University "A Mural of Mari Evans" on Vimeo 20th-century births University of Toledo alumni American women poets African-American poets Poets from Ohio 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American poets 20th-century American poets Writers from Indianapolis Poets from Indiana 2017 deaths Women anthologists American women essayists Black Arts Movement writers 20th-century American essayists 21st-century American essayists 20th-century American women writers 20th-century African-American women writers 20th-century African-American writers 21st-century African-American women writers 21st-century African-American writers Purdue University faculty Washington University in St. Louis faculty Cornell University faculty University at Albany, SUNY faculty Spelman College faculty Indiana