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Guest Poets & Writers Index

     Paul Laurence Dunbar Bio                                      Gwendolyn  Brooks Bio  

  Kalamu ya Salaam Table

Writing Sonnets

On Writing Haiku

 

George Washington Carver

 Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

A Letter of Discovery by Sandra L. West

We Are A Dancing People  Leslie Garland Bolling   Wendy Stand Up with Your Proud Hair!  Coming of Age in 1960s Newark

We keep coming back and coming back & Other Poems by Kahlil Koromantee  / Poetry Foundation

Beltway Poetry Quarterly  inaugurates National Poetry Month with a new issue devoted to authors who have recently published their first, full-length, single-author books.  Five authors are featured, all with notable books, including A.B. Spellman, author of Things I Must Have Known 162 pp. Coffee House Press 2008. Spellman is a founding member of the Black Arts Movement and one of the fathers of modern jazz criticism.  A.B. Spellman Interview

Dungeons

A Poem by Ayodele Nginga

Charles Chapman, Executive Director of the Los Angeles Black Books Expo, poet and  author  of two books; Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd, poet and author of Loving Black Women; Pearl JR author of Black Women Need Love Too and Arthur Joseph Graham Ph.D., author of many books. Pictured in Los Angeles, CA 7/15/07 after their successful "He Said She Said" Seminar and Book Signing Event at L. A's KRST Unity Center for African Spirituality, sponsored by The LA Black Book Expo Committee, KRST Center and Elbow Grease Productions. These authors and others will  appear at the August 10, 2007 LA Black Book Expo to be held at the Intergenerational Center 3980 Manlo in Los Angeles from 10 AM. To 6 PM. Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd and Pearl Jr. will appear at the Lucy Florence Coffeehouse and Cultural Center 3351 W.43 Street Los Angeles, CA as part of a What Black Men Think Program organized by Earl Ofari Hutchinson beginning at 7PM to 9PM Thursday 7/19/07. www.labbx.com / www.blackwomenneedlovetoo.com / www.lovingblackwomen.com   

Ashé, a Poem of Homage & Love

for Iya Barbara Ann Teer‏ (1937-2008)

By Olabisi Askia Toure

Niyi Juliad: Osundare's Universe of Burdens  The Poet's Pen & Other Poems

 

Artichoke Pickle Passion: A Sonnet

By Beverly Fields Burnette

Search for Black Men: Vietnam Post-Mortem  Searching for my Great Grandmother at Stonewall  Voices of the Culture

 Asili Ya Nadhiri  and how do you warm     / Duh Measur'n Rod    / Mama   /    Corners

 

Attending The Ninth National Black Writers Conference 

A Report by Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd

Report on Third Annual African-American Spoken Word Festival  /  Larry Uklai Johnson Redd Table

First Tour of Duty and Other Poems

By Anastacia (Stacey) Tolbert

Files for Yictove On the Passing of Malvina Turk  American Money  Blue Print  (Poems) Jammin  Mr Politician  My Life Story  Tropical Love   

African Slave Castle (video)

Poetic Mission

A Forum on the Role of the Poet and Poetry

The First Time I Heard Billie

Poem by Amin Sharif

On Cultural Work

The Free Southern Theatre Institute

a Venue for Truth-Telling

By Jerry W. Ward, Jr.

Did you know  . . .

April is National Poetry Month

We highlight Dudley Randall and Audre Lorde

 Reginald Lockett in Memory and Tribute

to Oakland’s Poet and Professor

Some Gangster Pain By Gillian Conoley

Some Gangster Pain  Slave Quarter  Suddenly the Graves  Goat Without Horns  / Global News:PoliticsLiterature & the Arts

 

Poems for Peace in Kenya

By Maurine Otor

Poems of Love and Pain  (Maurine Otor)  /  Human Rights and Women's Rights

Love Poems by Amendrius Elizabeth McRae

Would You . . . ?   Tribe

Poems on Kenyan Political Violence by Sitawa Namwalie

Alberto O. Cappas, Poet/Writer   Never Too Late to Make a U-Turn An Educational Pledge and 15 Questions to Self-Development

Poems: Doña Julia Review   Cappas Bio  Nubian Voices   Doña Julia    Her Borinquen   Haiti in Puerto Rico My Home

 

windowshades and other poems 

By Raymond Brookter

The Healing Power of Words   / Global News:PoliticsLiterature & the Arts

Interview with Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd Author of  Loving Black Women     

 Remembering Chinwe  History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry  Waiting for You    My Beautiful Wife    Journey to the Motherland

 

Whatbody Is Killing

   (a concave allusion to Amiri Baraka’s “Somebody Blew Up America”)

By Jerry W. Ward, Jr.

Blue Voices for the Fourth of July  /  Somebody Blew Up America   Making Peace with the Loss of Things

Slo Dance Reviews   Celebrating the Release  Acknowledgements  Slo Dance Table   Slo Dance Introduction  A Real Long Look   The Protector  Mobutu and Zaire

 

Letter to a Relative: Poem for Leonard Peltier

 By Ayodele Nzinga 

Global News: Politics—Literature & the Arts

Tom Dent Speaks Tom Dent Bio  My Father Is Dead  Jessie Covington Dent  When I Do That Thing  

 

When I was a girl

By Mary Weems

On Almost Meeting Alice Walker  Five Poems   News at Noon   Argo Starch   Mary E. Weems Table

Man of Fire—Man of Passion  by C.P. Gause, PhD / Poems  by Andrea Barnwell To Myself: Lists    The Sudan     January Again     Rain Poem

A Poetic Purpose to My Life

By Craig A. Garner

Poems, Interviews, & a Story by Jane Musoke-Nteyafas: Meet Jay Lou Ava   Where Is the Love of All Things African? WE BE BLACK PEOPLE 

REMEMBER: CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   AFRO-DISIAC   FORBIDDEN FRUIT  Enough with the Poisonous Lyrics   Interview with Rudolph Lewis  

Malcolm     Shine & the Titanic   Poem for Our Fathers   Poem for Our Mothers

 By Professor ARTURO 

Global News: Politics—Literature & the Arts / Poem for Our Mothers (Video)

The Wondrous Wanda Coleman Poems  & Stories She Writes

 

Yictove Obituary & Poems

Written by daughter, Chie Lunn

 

Before Becoming Historical  / Yictove (Eugene Turk) made his transition suddenly Saturday evening,  July 28th 2007

Sundiata Memorials—A special Memorial for Sekou Sundiata takes place on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 (his birth date), at Tishman Auditorium, New School University, 66 West 12th Street, exactly from 6pm to 8pm, with poets, musicians, family and friends. . . . African Voices africanvoices@aol.com is looking for poems and short comments from friends and fellow artists who were influenced and inspired by Sekou Sundiata. Publisher Carolyn Butts and Editor Layding Kaliba are looking to publish as many dedications to him as possible; therefore, no submission should be longer than 500 words. African Voices also wants to include photographs to accompany the dedications All submissions should be sent to africanvoices@aol.com no later than midnight, August 20, 2007, in order to include materials gathered in the very next issue. Interested parties may submit materials via email and/or call African Voices at 212.865.2982.

Gifted Poet Sekou Sundiata (August 22, 1948 -- July 18, 2007) Obituary by Louis Reyes Rivera

 

Loneliness   40 Acres in a prison    Stand By Me

Poems/Lyrics by  Crystal Cartier

Check out Crystal's rousing Stand by Me video and her delightful Hello World video

The Afro-Blues Tradition: Glorious Child of The Africans  By Kwame A F Copeland

Emerge & See

By Tony Medina

The Different Flavors of Words  By Claudia Saul

African Burial Ground

By Linda Mayfield-Hayes

Po-It Brotha Soul Untitled  Himacy  Lickwid  Langwij (A Musical CD)

 

Queen Africa: A Poem in Two Parts

By  Betty Wamalwa Muragori

Maya Angelou at Million Man March   /   1 in 2 Million  / Cries of a Ghetto Child  / The Chosen One 

My Grandma Rocks the Cradle and Rules the World

& Other Poems by Ellen Dunbar

Writings by Ng'ethe Githinji I  Am Not Superman #1       Twenty Short Stories of Love

Poems by Cheryl W. Robinson

Global News:PoliticsLiterature & the Arts

37 Poems by Lasana Sekou taught at US university

 

A sudden thought for you & Other Poems

By Paul McIntosh

Second2Last Table --   a generation    Scene/Seen  Money  The 10 Step Program  Truth B   Conversation With Myself     Crown   Legion    Change

 

Rifts

By Mackie Blanton

After Katrina (An Intro) Chapter I  (Neighbors and Invaders)    Chapter 2  ( Earthquakes and Baklava)  

Chapter 3   (The Lens in Plato’s Eye)   Malcolm’s Landing

Mackie Blanton: Malcolm’s Landing:  After Katrina   Chapter I  (Neighbors and Invaders) Chapter 2 ( Earthquakes and Baklava)  Chapter 3   (The Lens in Plato’s Eye)  

Neighbors and Invaders   Eh, La Bas, Cherie! (letter)  Beers and Transformation   Ode #95   The Struggle Ode 

 

Send contributions to: ChickenBones: A Journal /  13219 Kientz Road / Jarratt, VA 23867  -- I became aware of Rudy Lewis’ labor of love a few short months ago during a visit to Kalamu ya Salaam’s e-drum listserv. As soon as I saw the title of the journal I knew it was about Black folks, and the power of the written word.  A quick click took me into a journal that’s long on creativity, highlighting well-known, little known, and a little known writers, and commitment to the empowerment of Black folks. I contacted Rudy to ask if he’d consider publishing some of my work. His response was immediate, and a couple of days after I’d forwarded some poems to him—they were part of ChickenBones. What I didn’t know was that this journal has been surviving for the last five years with very little outside financial support. . .  If we want journals like this to “thrive” we need to support them with more than our website hits, praise, and submissions for publication consideration.

—Peace, Mary E. Weems (January 2007)                    

How can we trust them?

 By Akoli Penoukou

Laura Ivers --What's For Supper   The Proliferation of a Lie  NEGLECT  The Price of Ignorance  Textbook Victimization  A Letter To Langston Hughes

 

 

Searching for my Great Grandmother at Stonewall

(For my great grandmother Mary Lewis Farrar)

By Beverly Fields Burnette

Voices of the Culture   Search for Black Men: Vietnam Post-Mortem

 Paula M. Patton-Ross -- Miss La Reba Potato's Salad   Tell Me Where  AfterGlow

 

Flowering Sky

By Arif Ay

 Poems Translated by Mevlut Ceylan

Carnations Guerrilla  Here   Looking at Istanbul  Ostlers & Doomsday   Parting  Poems of Destruction  RAMP  REQUIEM  

Say it Loud: Poems about James Brown. Edited by: Mary E. Weems, and Thomas Sayers Ellis. We grew up on James Brown’s hit me! When he danced every young Black man wanted to move, groove and look like him. Mr. Brown wasn’t called the hardest workingman in show business because he wasn’t. Experiencing a James Brown show was like getting your favorite soul food twice, plus desert. His songs, like black power fists you could be proud of and move to at the same time.  When Mr. Brown sang make it funky we sweated even in the wintertime.  Losing him was like losing somebody in our family. This is a shout out for poems about the impact James Brown had on our lives.  Poems that will help people remember, honor, and celebrate his legacy. Don’t be left in a cold sweat, send us your old and new James Brown poems today.

Submission Guidelines:  3-5 Unpublished and/or published poems with acknowledgement included. No longer than 73 lines  Deadline: December 31, 2007 (Receipt not postmark) Send hard copies along with a Word Document and short bio on a CD to: Dr. Mary E. Weems / English Department /  John Carroll University / 20700 North Park Blvd. / University Hts., Ohio 44118 / Send via e-mail attachment (Word Documents Only) to: mweems45@sbcglobal.net,  and tse@case.edu

Obama 3 and Other Poems

By Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani

My Soul is anchored: poems from the mourning Katrina national writing project -- now on sale

 

 

When Music is a Poet's Tool: Tame turmoil. Transform all the bile-flavored anger and anxiety into words. Vent. Review the outburst to discover the pattern the turmoil never told you it had. Reshape the pattern into stanzas or lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narratives. Polish. Repolish. Publish. There are times when poems must respond  to natural disasters and subsequent pandemics to the reflux acid of war, racism, genocide. At those times, it is only normal for poets to let the turmoil roll. If you want a poem rather than the droppings of a vatic pigeon, you must dance in a music that takes you to the other side of natural disaster and national tragedy. Jerry Ward, Jr., "The Katrina Papers," DrumVoices, Spring-Summer-Fall 2006                   

 

Speak the Truth to the People  by Mari Evans

We're in the Same Boat Brother by Huddie Ledbetter

  Literature & Arts

Stacey Tolbert's Baring My Soul  /  Kool Aid  / Elvis at the dinner party  /   Breaking Down  / Anatacia's Lament   / Baring My Soul   /  Fantasy Island   

Sisters Who Hate Fast Food  / Sonia's Song  / What's Goin On 

Poor poetry, rich deceit

The Phrasing Of ISP Letters 

ISP Deceives 

Baroness Lynda Chalker

Poems by Cheryl W. Robinson -- Weather It Is / WE / River of Living Waters

Saloy Files: Red Beans and Ricely Yours (2005) WE: A Poem  For Frank Fitch  For Daddy V  Mother with Me on Canal Street  A Life Won with Blood & Tears

 

 

How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love

By E. Ethelbert Miller

    It Must Be Lester Young   New York: St. Vincent's Hospital  A Poem for Richard Omar, Books, and Me    

     In Shadows There Are Men  All that could go wrong  Fathering Words  Galbus on Ethelbert

Congratulations to E. Ethelbert Miller-- Poets & Writers is thrilled to announce that the three recipients of its 2007 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award are E. Ethelbert Miller, Francine Prose, and Susan Shreve. Established in 1996, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, which is presented at P&W's annual dinner, recognizes authors who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community. Honorees are nominated by a committee composed of past winners, other prominent writers, and the Board of Directors of Poets & Writers.  A Poem for Richard  It Must Be Lester Young   New York: St. Vincent's Hospital 

 

Mona Lisa Saloy

Winner of the PEN Oakland National Literary Award
For
Red Bean and Ricely Yours (2005)

Mackie Blanton: Malcolm’s Landing:  After Katrina   Chapter I  (Neighbors and Invaders) Chapter 2 ( Earthquakes and Baklava)  Chapter 3   (The Lens in Plato’s Eye)  

Neighbors and Invaders   Eh, La Bas, Cherie! (letter)  Beers and Transformation   Ode #95   The Struggle Ode 

 

ChickenBones Poetry Book for 2006

The Sleeping

Poems by Caroline Maun

Reviewed by Rudolph Lewis

Katrina   Faceless / The Red Rat Snake / Colors

Saloy Files: Red Beans and Ricely Yours (2005)    For Frank Fitch  For Daddy V  Mother with Me on Canal Street  A Life Won with Blood & Tears

Poems from  Ten Years of Feelings By Santos Vargas

Poems by Godspower Oboido: MONSTERS    WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MAMA'S LAND

 

Interview with Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd

Author of Loving Black Women

By Rudolph Lewis

History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry  Black Love/ Spoken Word Poetry Tour

 Remembering Chinwe  History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry  Waiting for You    My Beautiful Wife    Journey to the Motherland  

Poems by Glenis Redmond

Lifting   Mama's Magic   She   Mango

Poems by Christopher Barnes All Ear   Also Ran  An Ignoble Liberty  Antiseptic For A Foot-Stomped Ego  Appetites  As Harry Puts The Bomb Under The Audi…

Hail to the Chief & Other Poems by Richard Lawson

View From Crook Peak  Tsunami - Villanelle  A Wood in Somerset, Iraq  Leaves on the lawn  The Shed

 

Kwame Dawes: Wisteria, Twilight Songs from the Swamp Country   Tornado Child   Black Funk  Vengeance

 

Literary New Orleans

Poems, Essays, Reports, etc.

Katrina by Caroline Maun  There's Another New Orleans: by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Kalamu ya Salaam The Call: Ideology or Poetry?    My Life Is the Blues   Producing & Recording Poetry   A Black Poetics    African-American Language

Poems by Yictove

That Town   Grandma Turk   Tropical Love

Poems By Jennifer Brown Banks

I Once Loved a Poet . . .  The Leather Pants   City Living

Poems by  Jennifer Brown Banks The Paradox of Racism  The Leather Pants CAN A WHITE WOMAN DO THIS?    City Living   Angry Black Man

Poems by Dwight Hayes

 

Necromancers of Negritude & Other Thoughts

By Vince Rogers

Turkish Legislator Poets

 Ziya Gokalp  Mehmet Akif Ersoy  Yahya Kemal Beyatli  Faruk Nafiz Çamlibel  Yusuf Ziya Ortac

  Kemalettin Kamu  Hasan Ali Yucel  Necdet Evliyagil  Mehmet Atilla Maras  Erdem Bayazit

Translated from the Turkish by Mevlut Ceylan

Poems by Mevlut Ceylan  Ceylan Index  Thresholds  An Awkward End & Other Poems  The Birth  Living Is An Art   Pilgrim   Survival  

Time &  Freedom   Open Your Arms   The Hanging  The Appointed Time  Bare &The Letter

 

The Sultan Poets   Psalms by Mevlut Ceylan

Mevlut Ceylan Interviews

Ahmed Ali (1910-1994)

Ceylan Index   Mevlut Ceylan Interviews Rudy on Poetic Process 

Skin Poems by Drisana Deborah Jack Introduction  saturday night  a poet's farewell  waterpoem 5

The Journey  Oceans of Love-- Table    Books N Review

Poetry, She Wrote I: Oh Magnify Him

By Dee Freeman

To Us From Us  Love in the Flesh  Who Am I?  Ain't I Somebody Too I Weep 

Minna Tsuei Poems   Hurricane Katrina: Did the Chinese Help   Chinatown Blues

Homespun Images

An Anthology of Black Memphis Writers and Artists

Miriam DeCosta-Willis & Fannie Mitchell Delk, Editors

Philip Dotson, Art Editor

Etheridge Knight:  He Sees Through Stone   Once on a Night in the Delta

We keep coming back and coming back & Other Poems by Kahlil Koromantee

What's Happening @ Sista's Place   Lest We Forget Killens   Scattered Scripture 

Inside the River of Poetry
By Louis Reyes Rivera
New York, New York

 Filiberto Ojeda Rios  Scattered Scripture  jorge's journey   Rivera Bio    On the Passing of Rich Bartee 

 (compulsion strikes the witness)

jorge's journey

  Notes for (jorge's journey)

 

A Conversation with Myself 

 

Etheridge Knight Speaks

Poeting, Hustling & the Black Aesthetic

  He Sees Through Stone   Once on a Night in the Delta

Check out  Flowers' Meditations on the Longgame, and his -- Rootsblog: A Cyberhoodoo Webspace

 On Richard Wright and Our Contemporary Situation  

Trouble the Water

250 years of African-American Poetry

By Jerry W. Ward, Jr.

The Art of Tom Dent: Early Evidence  (essay) After the Hurricanes (poem)

 NOLA SPEAKS  Portrait of a Suicide/Death in Yellow Flooding   After the Hurricanes (poem)  Trouble the Water (book)

I'm in the Eye of Katrina

By Joe Williams III

After the Hurricanes

(for the radical writers in New Orleans)

By Jerry W. Ward, Jr.

A Tribute to Lee Meitzen Grue

New Orleans Poet

Booker: Black Night Keep on Falling  

Ellis Marsalis on Wednesday at Snug Harbor

Miss Marva Wright  Turbinton: The African Cowboy at Charlie B's

Walter Washington    Signed Poem    Miles

Night Train to Melbourne  Billie Pierce  Jazzmen Waiting 

At the French Market  Young Men in Wheel Chairs

French Quarter Poems  -- Introduction

 Poetry Forum  Fellowship Award  Literature a la Russe

photo credit: Phyllis Parun

 

  Sitting ducks at the superdome    It Ain't About Race

Poems by Claire Carew

    Katrina New Orleans Flood Index 

Save Me from All These Pimps by Esther Iverem / SeeingBlack.Com Editor and Film Critic / Literature & Arts

 

 

north star

By Bro. Yao

 hell poem #2  clouds  they make a wall against armageddon  Reggie with the Box Top  guitar

     Latorial Faison: When We Were Poor Revelations  Sounds of Blackness    After Katrina . . .    Chaos 

 Poems from Richmond VA   www.jeannettedrake.com

 

Poem for Rudy  Amazing Grace Deliverance  Tsunami  

Poems by Jeannette Drake

Fishbone & Blues   Mystic Mam-A-Jama

Poems by Dorothy Marie Rice

Remembering Borsodi

The Passing of a New Orleans Artist

By Rudolph Lewis & Others

A memorial service will be held Dec. 27 / at noon at Breezy's Place, 2139 Soniat St

Chandra Lewis  --  Black Man Where Do You Stand   On the Wing of a Prayer     A Shared Moment   Back in Swamp Briars2

Neo-Folklore     Beachhead Preachment     

Ahmos Zu-Bolton HooDoo Poet

 Opened a Channel to the Ancestors 

Another Soldier Gone Candelight Vigil for Ahmos Zu-Bolton 

37 Poems by Lasana Sekou taught at US university

 

Black Girls Learn Love Hard

Poems by Ras Baraka

Sample poems #1  #4  There Are Some Black Men

 For Tom Dent's work with young writers, read Kalamu's Art for Life: My Story, My Song, especially When I Do That Thing  

 

Driving the Blues Away: Or Dying by Degrees   By Rudolph Lewis 

Responses to “Driving the Blues Away”

 

Vocal Landscape Poems by Paul Tyler  Drawings by Patricia Brown

  

   12 jazz haiku  for nia long 

 By Van G. Garrett

 

The Cruelty of Age  in Lorenzo Thomas' “Tirade”  African Folktales & Modern Thought 

Nidaa Khoury, Palestinian Poet  Signs Agreement 

with Caribbean Publisher Lasana M. Sekou  Haiti 200  Tortured Fragments   Visit & Fellowship II  

Lasana M. Sekou 

 
Additional Files 

Amin Sharif

A Blues for the Birmingham Four

Arthur R. Flowers

     Another Good Loving Blues

     De Mojo Blues 

     Mojo Rising  

     Rootwork By Patricia R. Schroeder 

     Rootwork and the Prophetic Impulse

     Up Against the Wall in Haiti

 

Asili Ya Nadhiri

     and how do you warm when you alone

    corners  

    Duh Measur'n Rod    

     Mama  

 

Askia Muhammad Toure

     Askia on Pan Africanism  

     Dawnsong! 

     Osirian Rhapsody: A Myth 

     Rudy Interviews Askia Touré Part 1   Part 2  

 

Binyavanga Wainaina

 

Banning Chinua Achebe in Kenya

Kwani? Kenya's Literary Journal   www.kwani.org

 

Bro. Yao

     clouds  

     guitar

     hell poem #2 

     north star 

     Reggie with the Box Top  

     they make a wall against armageddon
 

Crystal Cartier

     Bitter Valentine

     Crystal on Janet & Michael

     The Honeymoon Is Over  

     Missing You  

     Temporary Lovers  

 

Cynthia McOliver

Poems: Status quo / Being /  Self-image /  Dreams

DB Cox

     bird on the wing 

     breakdown lane

     endless river  

     for sonny   

     shades of ray 

     supernatural fire  

     repetition of a song    

 

Dorothy Riggs McCall

 

A Bed of Lies

 Days of Daze 

Nature’s Orchestra

The Things I See   

There’s A Future In Blackness

 

E. Ethelbert Miller

     All that could go wrong 

     Beltway: An On-Line Poetry Quarterly Edited by  Kim Roberts

     Fathering Words by Julia A. Galbus

     How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love (2004)

     In Shadows There Are Men

     It Must Be Lester Young 

     Memory and Influence: A History of DC Poets

     New York: St. Vincent's Hospital 

     Omar, Books, and Me  

     A Poem for Richard 

 

Etta Mae Ladson

 

Strange Land Songs

Sonnet #1  

Sonnet #2

Frederick B. Hudson

     My Father's Planting  

     The Prophet  

     When You Told Me You Could Carve

     Yours Was a Fierce Fire

Inventing Africa: New York Times by Milton Allimadi

Jerhretta Dafina Suite  

     Charm School

     Haiku

     I Wept Rivers  

     Mama and Me              

     Smiles 

Jerry W. Ward, Jr.   

The Acklyn Model Not Sufficient  (conversation)         

The Art of Tom Dent: Early Evidence  (essay)

After the Hurricanes (poem)

Love Should Deflect Contentment   (conversation)

 

 I Couldn't Find Jesus at the Box Office (The Passion of Christ) John Sankofa 

 

lasana m. sekou

     Haiti 200

     Knighted ny Dutch Queen Beatrix 

     Tortured Fragments   

     Visit & Fellowship II 

Kola Boof

A Hymn to Kola Boof  by Rudolph Lewis

Bio-Chronology of Kola's Life

Interpretation in Small Containers  

My Master, My Husband

Turned On About Two Dreaming You

 

Laura Ivers

A Letter To Langston Hughes

NEGLECT

Textbook Victimization 

The Price of Ignorance 

The Proliferation of a Lie   

What's For Supper?

 

Louis Reyes Rivera 

 

     (compulsion strikes the witness)

     Inside the river of poetry   

     Interview  by Rudolph Lewis

     jorge's journey 

     Lest we Forget Killens

     Notes for (jorge's journey) 

     On the Passing of Rich Bartee

     Rivera Bio

     Scattered Scripture

     Writers' Workshop   

Marcus Harris

Poems from Songs in Search of a Voice

Songs in Search of a Voice

Mawelulu Onwuku

 

     Anti-P.I.M.P. Manifesto

     Conspiracy Theories 101—

     The White Lie Must Die

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

     After All the Flame by Randy Wells

     Becoming Ebony  

     In the Begnning  

     Monrovia Women

     Surrender

     This is What I Tell My Daughter   

Po-It

     Brotha Soul

     Himacy

     Lickwid  Langwij   

     Untitled 

Remembering Borsodi

Stacey Tolbert

     Baring My Soul

     For Sisters Who Hate Fast Food  

     Sonia's Song  

     What's Goin On

Van G. Garrett

     African Folktales Still Influence Modern Thought

     12 jazz haiku 

     for nia long   

     Instructions for Your New Osiris 

     The Cruelty of Age  in Lorenzo Thomas' “Tirade”  

Yvonne Terry

     What Consolation Is Christ to Suffering?  

 

#58

black people believe

in god, & i believe in

black people, amen

#87

inspired by womb's gift

art is the only birth a

male can accomplish

Haiku by Kalamu ya Salaam

--from Nia: Haiku, Sonnets, and Sun Songs (2002)

 
#1

there's no night so long

that we can not ride through to

taste tomorrow's dawn

#7

summer rain showers

fall, in renegade silence

i strip search my soul

#50

i'm desolate as

a wino sucking on some

discarded bottle

#14

today bottled tears

are sold as spring water, its

dog eat everything

#20

your patient water

indelibly sculpted my stone

your touch matured me

#46

you pause on the edge

of me, testing my water

with your toe, please swim

 
#49

thought i was gone but

my train rumbles in circles

each station is you

#79

i enter your church

you receive my offerings

our screaming choirs merge

#100

what we know limits

us, wisdom loves everything

not yet understood

Nia: Haiku, Sonnets, Sun Songs

Kalamu's Feminist Erotica

Feminism, Black Erotica & Revolutionary Love

Responses to Feminism, Black Erotica

Blue Print Contents

Grandma Turk  

Soliloquy for Cain

Photograph

 

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