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Erica Hunt (born March 12, 1955) is a U.S. poet, essayist, teacher, mother, and organizer from New York City. She is often associated with the group of Language poets from her days living in San Francisco in the late 1970s and early 80s, but her work is also considered central to the avant garde black aesthetic developing after the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements. Through the 1990s and 2000s, Hunt worked with several non-profits that encourage black philanthropy for black communities and causes. From 1999 to 2010, she was executive director of the 21st Century Foundation located in Harlem. Currently, she is devoting herself full-time to writing. == Biography == Hunt was born in Manhattan to working-class parents. Her father, Thomas Edward Hunt (b. 1914), was a mail carrier and worked for the MTA; mother, Daphne Lindsey Hunt (b. 1918), who was blind, worked as a transcriptionist for the city of New York. Her older sister, Fern Hunt (b. 1948), holds a PhD from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University (1978), and works as a mathematician at the Computing & Applied Mathematics Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.〔("Fern Y. Hunt: Mathematician of the African Diaspora" )〕 In a 2000 panel for the Poetry Society of America, Hunt states, “I come from a family of acute social observers, natural mimics and shrewd survivors. These traits, I've come to realize, go together, where observation has evolved to the point that we were situationally multilingual, able to speak several vernaculars, meaning always at least doubled, filling the form while tunneling under the wall.”〔 Hunt attended University of Vermont—where she studied the philosophy of language, anthropology, and folklore—and received in 1980 a BA in English from San Francisco State University—where she studied poetry with Kathleen Fraser and Michael Palmer.〔(Al Filreis’s announcement of Hunt as CPCW Fellow )〕 During her time in the Bay Area in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hunt was an active part of the poetry scene, particularly the group of so-called Language poets who held readings at The Grand Piano, a coffeehouse at 1607 Haight Street in San Francisco. She read as part of the series with Alan Bernheimer and Rodger Kamenetz on June 13, 1978 and then with Steve Lavoie on July 21, 1979.〔(The Grand Piano Project )〕 In 1981, Hunt moved back to New York City, carrying with her the energy and taste for public talks and social gatherings about poetry so endemic to the SF area scene. From 1985 to 1999 she served as Senior Program Officer and Donor Advisor at the New World Foundation, a national foundation supporting social justice in New York City.〔(Rosetta Thurman, "28 DAYS OF BLACK NONPROFIT LEADERS: ERICA HUNT" )〕 After moving back to New York, Hunt quickly became immersed in the avant garde jazz scene and thought she might do music writing for a living. Here is where she met her husband, saxphonist Marty Ehrlich in 1983. During the late 1980s, Hunt served on the board of directors for the Segue Foundation, an arts group that founded Roof Books, funded arts programs in prisons, and sponsored many artists individual projects. Since 1976, Roof Books “has produced over 100 titles of contemporary poetry and criticism, several of which are now esteemed as classics of experimental literature. In the late 1970s/early 80s, Segue published the poetry journal ''Roof'' and distributed the critical journal ''L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E'' with 500 other related literary titles."〔(The Segue Foundation )〕 Along with filmmakers Abigail Child and Henry Hill and dancer Sally Silvers, Hunt restored an abandoned building into an artists living, studio, and performance space. The project was completed in 1988 and the space sponsored artists through 2002. From the foundation’s website: “In 1987, SEGUE sponsored the renovation of an abandoned city-owned property at 303 East 8th Street into 12 artist live/work co-ops and a 1200 sq. ft. performance space, the only successfully completed Manhattan artist housing project of the eighties."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Erica Hunt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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