Heritage Press Archives
Finding Aid: Heritage Press Archives
Repository:
Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature
 | Maker: Heritage Press Owner: Paul Breman Note: Heritage Press Archives 6-4, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Letter from Conrad Kent Rivers to Paul Breman, 30 January 1968, regarding last-minute changes and review copies for Rivers' A Still Voice of Harlem, published in 1968. Rivers died tragically later that year, and Breman published a posthumous collection of his poetry - a series of poems written for Richard Wright - in 1972. Maker: Conrad Kent Rivers Note: Heritage Press Archives 11-3, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Dudley Randall, founder of Broadside Press and author of Love You, published in 1970. Broadside Press began publishing broadsides of single poems by black authors in 1965, and soon became the primary publisher of the Black Arts Movement. Indeed, Broadside published four of the most important and influential voices of the movement, Nikki Giovanni, Haki Madhubuti, Sonia Sanchez and Etheridge Knight. Randall worked with Paul Breman in several capacities, including as the American distributor for Heritage Press titles. Note: Heritage Press Archives 045, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Audre Lorde, author of Cables to Rage, Lorde's second ever volume of published poetry, published in 1970. Lorde was an important gay activist and an excellent critic of the racism of the feminist movement and sexism of the African-American movement. Breman considered Cables to Rage the best book in his series after Hayden's. Note: Heritage Press Archives 041, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Ronald Fair, author of Excerpts, published in 1975. A successful novelist, Fair was a close friend of Breman's, and a frequent correspondent. He also wrote the introduction to The Wright Poems (1972), by their late mutual friend Conrad Kent Rivers. Note: Heritage Press Archives 024, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Ronald Fair was very resistant to the idea of supplying autobiographical information to appear in his Heritage book, but Paul Breman insisted. Fair finally relented, but signaled his discontent by titling the document 'The Shit Sheet,' ca. 1975. Maker: Ronald Fair Owner: Fair estate Note: Heritage Press Archives 5-6, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Dolores Kendrick, author of Through the Ceiling, published in 1975. This was Kendrick's first book of poetry, to be followed in later years by the award-winning The Women of Plums (1989), as well as Now is the Thing to Praise (1984) and Why the Woman is Singing on the Corner (2001). In 1999, she was named the Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia. The only other person to be honored with that tile was Sterling Brown, in 1984. Note: Heritage Press Archives 035, Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |