Grio: The Quarterly Journal of Afrikan National Culture; Vol. 1 No. 2 (September 1978)

Atlanta: Shair Productions/House of PRAE, 1978. Jamil el-Shair, Editor. 20 pp. VG or better in illustrated stapled wraps (foxing and soiling).

Scarce literary journal of mostly poetry by Black authors (including reprinting of two poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar) and other Atlanta area authors. Illustrated throughout. Grio was funded in part by the city of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs (Shirley Franklin was Director). House of PRAE was a group that saw itself as “a positive force bent on systematic elevation; first we strive to elevate ourselves, next our people—Afrikan people, then and thereby the rest of humanity.”

No copies in commerce and only four holdings in OCLC (NYPL, SUNY Buffalo, Columbia, Wisconsin). Item #1241

Price: $450.00