The Kansas University’s project on the History of Black Writing will continue to study the influence of the Civil Rights era on African-American poetry with its recent $156,000 grant from the National Endowment of Humanities.

The grant, awarded this past July, will fund a second institute in 2015 called “Black Poetry after the Black Arts Movement,” as part of its special series, “Don’t Deny My Voice.”

From July 19 to Aug. 1, 25 teachers from universities across the nation will work with visiting and residential faculty to study African-American poetry beginning with the mid-1960s, a period commonly known as the Black Arts Movement.

The institute series initially received NEH funding in 2012; this is the History of Black Writing’s 15th NEH grant in its 30 years of existence. The death of black iconic poets Amiri Baraka and Jayne Cortez inspired this second institute.

“The institute is our way of breaking free of prescriptive readings and the critical invisibility that limit our teaching and our ongoing scholarship,” said Maryemma Graham, HBW’s founder and director, in a press release.

The first week will focus on The Demographics and Production of Contemporary Black Poetry, led by Howard Rambsy, an associate professor of literature at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

The second week will focus on Contemporary Black Poetry and Form, led by Evie Shockley, poet and associate professor of English at Rutgers University.

The institute will extend into the fall with a webinar series that is open to the public with some of the country’s most well-known poets, including Sonia Sanchez, Nikky Finney, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Kwame Dawes, Jessica Care Moore and Nathaniel Mackey.