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Jayne Cortez (May 10, 1934〔Fox, Margalit. ("Jayne Cortez, Jazz Poet, Dies at 78" ), ''New York Times''. January 3, 2013.〕 – December 28, 2012) was an African-American poet, activist, small press publisher and spoken-word performance artist〔("Jayne Cortez" ), poets.org〕 whose voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic and dynamic innovations in lyricism and visceral sound. Her writing is part of the canon of the Black Arts Movement. ==Biography== Jayne Cortez was born Sallie Jayne Richardson on the Army base at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, on May 10, 1934. Her father was a career soldier who would serve in both world wars; her mother was a secretary. At the age of seven, she moved to Los Angeles, where she grew up in the Watts district.〔Busby, Margaret. ("Jayne Cortez obituary: Poet whose incantatory performances could be militant, lyrical and surreal" ), ''The Guardian''. Friday, January 4, 2013.〕 Young Jayne Richardson reveled in the jazz and Latin recordings that her parents collected. She studied art, music and drama in high school and later attended Compton Community College. She took the surname Cortez, the maiden name of her maternal grandmother, early in her artistic career. Cortez was the author of 12 books of poems and performed her poetry with music on nine recordings. She presented her work and ideas at universities, museums, and festivals in Africa, Asia, Europe, South America, the Caribbean and the United States. Her poems have been translated into 28 languages and widely published in anthologies, journals and magazines, including ''Postmodern American Poetry'', ''Daughters of Africa'', ''Poems for the Millennium'', ''Mother Jones,'' and ''The Jazz Poetry Anthology.'' In 1991, along with Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo, Cortez founded the Organization of Women Writers of Africa (OWWA),〔(The Organization of Women Writers of Africa, Inc. ) on Facebook.〕 of which she was president and which in 1997 organized "the first major international conference devoted to the evaluation and celebration of literature from around the world by women of African descent".〔Lena Williams, ("Literary Women With Roots In Africa" ), ''The New York Times'', October 16, 1997.〕 Cortez directed ''Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future'' (1999), which documented panels, readings and performances held during that conference. She was also organizer of "Slave Routes: The Long Memory" (2000) and "Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization" (2004), both international conferences held at New York University. She appeared on screen in the films ''Women in Jazz'' and ''Poetry in Motion''.〔("Jayne Cortez (1934–2012)" ), IMDb.〕 She married Ornette Coleman in 1954 and divorced him in 1964. She was the mother of jazz drummer Denardo Coleman. In 1975 she married sculptor Melvin Edwards.〔''Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers,'' vol. 1, p. 121.〕 She lived in Dakar, Senegal, and New York City, where she died. 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「Jayne Cortez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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