Dudley Randall (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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Despite his primary interest in poetry, Dudley Randall wrote short stories, articles, and reviews. In the mid-1960’s, he founded the Broadside Press, which thereafter consumed much of his energy, as he began to direct most of his writing toward poetry and critical articles. For the Broadside Press he edited, with Margaret G. Burroughs, For Malcolm: Poems on the Life and the Death of Malcolm X (1967), the press’s second publication. His introductory essay succinctly foreshadowed the influence that Malcolm X was to have on many of the newly...

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