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Author Biography

Ted Joans, a painter, trumpet player, jazz poet, and travel writer, is the author of more than thirty-five books, including The Hipsters and Black Pow Wow Jazz Poems.

Joans earned a BFA from Indiana University in 1951 and then moved to Greenwich Village, where he was associated with Jack Kerouac and other members of the Beat generation of the 1950s. Joans’s discontent with the treatment of blacks in America led him to move abroad, and he spent the next twenty years living summers in Europe and winters in Africa. Despite his absence from the u.s. literary scene, his work was rediscovered during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.