Henry Dumas, a novelist and poet who collaborated with jazz great Sun Ra, was born in Sweet Home, Arkansas in 1934, moved to Harlem at the age of ten, joined the Air Force, attended Rutgers, worked for IBM, and taught at Hiram College in Ohio and Southern Illinois University. In 1968, at the age of thirty-three, he was shot and killed by a New York Transit Authority policeman.
Hale Chatfieldis the founder and editor of theHiram Poetry Review. nbsp; Eugene Redmondis Poet-in-Residence at Oberlin College.