Eugene Redmond (1937 – )

Redmond was born December 1, 1937, in St. Louis, Missouri. He is an American poet, whose works are associated with the Black Arts Movement, and an academic who has taught at a number of schools in his over 50-year career. His published works include seven poetry collections and inclusion in multiple anthologies. His poetry collections are Sentry of the Four Golden Pillars (1970), River of Bones and Flesh and Blood (1971), Songs from an Afro/phone (1972), In a Time of Rain & Desire: New Love Poems (1973), Consider Loneliness as These Things (1974), The Eye in the Ceiling: Selected Poems. Harlem River Press (1991) and Arkansippi Memwars (2013).

Redmond's critical introduction to African-American poetry: Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry: A Critical History, was published by Doubleday in 1976.

He also edited the work of Henry Dumas, a black poet and academic, who was shot dead by New York Transit Police in 1968 in a case of mistaken identity.