Dael Orlandersmith's poetic two-hander Yellowman was Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2002, after she spent many years as a solo performer (touring with, among other performance work, the Nuyorican Poets Café).  Her work powerfully describes an American underclass, people marginalized by race, class, and often, addiction.  The lives she narrates are often lived [...]
SOURCE: The Feminist Spectator at 12:53PM on July 9, 2012