Desiree Cooper writes that poet Dudley Randall, part of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 70s, founded the Broadside Press. Many of the poets he published became leading artistic voices, winning the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, among other honors. "There was an intense energy here in Detroit,\" said Gloria House, a Wayne State professor emerita who taught in the department of Interdisciplinary Studies, is part of a collective that still operates the press. \"We had radical labor organizers, civil rights activists and Muslim politics. Randall was trying to publish little books of 20 pages or even broadsides of one poem so that it could get to the masses. It spread like wildfire.\"