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*Again Mama was bailing me out of self-made troubles by sending
me a bit of money. I had resigned my position with the Mayor’s
program. I had a quarrel with the new director. I enrolled in
library school and spent another three years at the University of
Maryland, College Park. I completed the program in 1997 and
received my MLS. Mama, Lucinda, and my sister Theresa came to
College Park to the graduation ceremony. After graduation and
while working at the AFL-CIO archives in Silver Spring, I was
offered a position at Virginia Union, but turned it down. Six
months later, I accepted a position with Enoch Pratt Public
Library. But the position with Pratt, at its branches did not
serve my larger goals as a writer and scholar. I quit and went
home for over six months. I finished my family memoir and began a
study of Nathaniel Turner.
Before I quit Pratt, Xavier Review Press published my book of
edited poems, I Am New Orleans & Other Poems By Marcus B.
Christian (1999), which was edited in collaboration with Amin
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