Williams, Darren Philadelphia Tribune, The 10-30-2001 Sonia Sanchez larger than life From a podium set up at 14th and Diamond streets, radio and television commentator Tavis Smiley looked out onto a crowd of faces that included poet Amiri Baraka, singer Jill Scott...

McCoy, Lezlie B. Philadelphia Tribune, The 12-23-2003 This story is dedicated to the writing and community service of the prolific Sonia Sanchez. Sonia Sanchez was born Wilsonia Driver on Sept. 9, 1934 in Birmingham, Alabama. Her parents were Wilson L. and Lena...

In the following interview, Melhem provides an introduction to Sanchez's career, which is followed by an interview in which Sanchez discusses the influences, themes, and forms of her work.

In the following essay, Garbin discusses the themes of Sanchez's works in terms of what she calls "Sanchez's strong Southern imagination, one that was born in the impressionable times of her youth in Alabama, where the tensions of struggle were fed with mama's milk."

In the following essay, De Lancey asserts that "As [Sanchez textualizes the form, forging her Afrocentric vision and Afrocentric structure within the discipline of the haiku form, she moves closer to a unique structure that carries her own signature."]