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| | The Academy of American Poets - Sonia Sanchez |
 | | Sonia Sanchez was born Wilsonia Benita Driver on September 9, 1934, in Birmingham, Alabama. |
 | | Sonia Sanchez has lectured at more than five hundred universities and colleges in the United States and had traveled extensively, reading her poetry in Africa, Cuba, England, the Caribbean, Australia, Nicaragua, the Peoples Republic of China, Norway, and Canada. |
 | | She was the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University, where she began teaching in 1977, and held the Laura Carnell Chair in English there until her retirement in 1999. |
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