Karl. W. Carter Jr., and the Black Arts Movement in DC

Karl W. Carter, Jr. was born in New Orleans in 1944, moved with his family to Los Angeles when he was in third grade and resides and practices law in Washington, D.C. He is in private practice specializing in racial discrimination law. Carter attended Tennessee State University and began writing poetry while at Howard University where he obtained his law degree. [Source: Personal communication with Karl Carter, Jr.] Carter's poetry appears in The Poet Upstairs: An Anthology of Washington Area Poets (Octave Stevenson, ed., 1979) and in Stephen Henderson (ed.), Understanding the New Black Poetry: Black Speech and Black Music as Poetic Reference (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1973).

Brian Gilmore is the author of four books of poetry including come see about me marvin (Wayne State University Press 2019), a Michigan Notable Book Award Recipient for 2020. His latest book is No More Worlds To Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington DC (Georgetown University…