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Send contributions to: ChickenBones: A Journal / 2005 Arabian Drive / Finksburg, MD 21048-- 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)
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By Marilyn Nelson; Illustrated by Philippe Lardy This memorial to the lynched teen is in the Homeric tradition of poet-as-historian. It is a heroic crown of sonnets in Petrarchan rhyme scheme and, as such, is quite formal not only in form but in language. There are 15 poems in the cycle, the last line of one being the first line of the next, and each of the first lines makes up the entirety of the 15th. This chosen formality brings distance and reflection to readers, but also calls attention to the horrifically ugly events. The language is highly figurative in one sonnet, cruelly graphic in the next. The illustrations echo the representative nature of the poetry, using images from nature and taking advantage of the emotional quality of color. There is an introduction by the author, a page about Emmett Till, and literary and poetical footnotes to the sonnets. The artist also gives detailed reasoning behind his choices. This underpinning information makes this a full experience, eminently teachable from several aspects, including historical and literary—School Library Journal / Carver: A Life in Poems / Winner of 2012 Frost Medal / Murders of Till / The Shocking Story / Carver: A Life |
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Barack Obama: The corporate masters’ 21st century ‘House Negro’ / A Day in the Life—Marvin X and Discussion / A Day in the Life— 2 / A Day in the Life—Marvin X and Discussion 3 |
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By Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie Somebody has to tell the truth sometime, whatever that truth may be. In this, her début full collection, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie offers up a body of work that bears its scars proudly, firm in the knowledge that each is evidence of a wound survived. These are songs of life in all its violent difficulty and beauty; songs of fury, songs of love. 'Karma's Footsteps' brims with things that must be said and turns the volume up, loud, giving silence its last rites. "Ekere Tallie's new work 'Karma's Footsteps' is as fierce with fight songs as it is with love songs. Searing with truths from the modern day world she is unafraid of the twelve foot waves that such honesties always manifest. A poet who "refuses to tiptoe" she enters and exits the page sometimes with short concise imagery, sometimes in the arms of delicate memoir. Her words pull the forgotten among us back into the lightning of our eyes.—Nikky Finney / Ekere Tallie Table Her Voice / Mother Nature: Thoughts on Nourishing Your Body, Mind, and Spirit During Pregnancy and Beyond www.ekeretallie.com |
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Carrie Mae Weems—Art: 21 / Carrie Mae Weems Talks/ Rev Curtis Watson—Come Out of the Wilderness / Louis Armstrong—Mack the Knife 1959 |
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Buddy Tate - Mack The Knife / Ben Webster - Chelsea Bridge (1964) / Lester Young 1944—Blue Lester / The Cry of Jazz (1959) Part 1 of 4 |
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By Craig A. Garner Other Books Books by Craig A. Garner: A Poetic Purpose to My Life / ChickenBones Black Arts and Black Power Figures (Compiled by Rudolph Lewis) |
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Was the CIA involved in Libya's revolution? / Noam Chomsky—USA has extreme contempt for democracy / Tuareg minority flees Libya / Wayfarer 4th Quarter 1967—Black Baltimore magazine |
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Pelican Heart—An Anthology of Poems by Lasana M. Sekou Edited by Emio Jorge Rodriguez Passion for the Nation is what comes out of Sekou’s poems at a first glance and at a deeper reading. The book is a selection gathered from eleven of Sekou’s poetry collections between 1978 and 2010. Rodríguez is an independent Cuban academic, writer, and essayist. He has been a researcher at Casa de las Américas’s Literary Research Center and founded the literary journal Anales del Caribe (1981-2000). María Teresa Ortega translated the poems from the original English to Spanish. A critical introduction, detailed footnotes, and a useful glossary by Rodríguez are also found in the book of 428 pages. The collection has been launched at conferences in Barbados, Cuba, and Mexico. Rodriguez’s introduction to Pelican Heart refers to Dr. Howard Fergus’s Love Labor Liberation in Lasana Sekou, which is the critical commentary to Sekou’s work that identifies three cardinal points in his poetics. I would add as cardinal points: Belief or Driving Force of people in political processes, like his political commitment to make St. Martin independent, as the southern part of the Caribbean island is a territory of the Netherlands, while the northern part is a French Collectivité d’outre-mer; Excitement over his literary passions, which led him to found House of Nehesi Publishers at age 23; co-found the book festival of St. Martin, organized with Conscious Lyrics Foundation and to expand his culture considerably; Enthusiasm, which springs out of his eyes and words when you listen to his poetry being performed or when you speak to Sekou in person.—Sara Florian / Lasana Sekou |
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Romare Bearden's Southern Sensibility / The song that lies silent in the heart of a mother sings upon the lips of her child. (Kahlil Gibran) Devil in a Blue Dress and Cinnamon Kiss (Mimi Ferebee) / We Can't Afford To Not Fix Justice System (Benjamin Todd Jealous) |
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Jeannette Drake Table / The Truth May Not Set Us Free / Give Peace a Chance / Obama Prayer / Poems from Richmond VA www.jeannettedrake.com |
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There's no big accomplishment in acting white (after being subjected to some third stream muzak) / I Choose Us: The African Mosquitoes Fly Out My Head |
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By Latorial Faison |
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Ekere Tallie --Forced Entry A Poem for A Man WhoKnows Elemental Sounds Permanent Rain Reunion Jazz Musicians Suddenly I Need One Thing Constant |
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Dr Asa Hilliard III speaks: Attack On Africans Writing Their Own History Part 1 of 7 / Part 2 of 7 / Part 3 of 7 / Part 4 of 7 / Part 5 of 7 / Part 6 of 7 / Part 7 of 7 |
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Beverly Jenai: Do Cowboys Dance? / That Which Binds / The Painting My Friend Yictove / Bevjenai Obama Order Page / The Crossings
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The Black Arts Movement Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s By James Edward Smethurst / ChickenBones Black Arts and Black Power Figures |
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Kwame Ture defines Pan-Africanism (1 of 2) / Kwame Ture defines Pan-Africanism (2 of 2) / Debate James Baldwin and Malcolm X / African Hair and Its Significance |
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Beverly Jenai: Do Cowboys Dance? That Which Binds The Painting My Friend Yictove / Jean-Michel Basquiat : The Radiant Child |
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How the U.S. Impoverished Haiti (Jean Damu) / Also Poems on Haiti by Marvin X, Ayodele Nzinga, and Dr. Rose Ure Mezu Jean Saint-Vil of Canada Haiti Action is interviewed by Pat Van Horne / New Orlean's Heart is in Haiti No, Mister! You Cannot Share My Pain! (John Maxwell) / The hate and the quake (Sir Hilary Beckles) |
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Climbing
Malcolm's Ladder
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Black Religious Crisis /
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How the Riots Might Have Turned Out Short Story by Sam Greenlee Be-Bop Man/Be-Bop Woman / When Desoree Danced / Ammunition: Poetry and Other Raps / Snake in the Garden of Eden |
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Fanon: A Novel by John Edgar Wideman / The Wretched of the Earth / We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For / Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher |
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The Omni-Americans / An Unmistakable Shade of Red & The Obama Chronicles / Our Women Keep Our Skies From Falling / Black Fire: An Anthology |
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The Intersection of Beauty and Crime Poems by Jawanza Phoenix |
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Macy Gray—I Try / Macy Gray—She Ain't Right For You / Macy Gray—When I See You / Macy Gray—Sweet Baby |
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Rudy's Place : Sussex County: A Tale of Three Centuries Public Education in Sussex County in Black and White History of Jerusalem Baptist Church |
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The Big Boys / Industrial Me / Steadman Graham's Steps to Success
New Work by Imamu Amiri Baraka (Black World, May 1973)) |
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Mary E. Weems Table / 4 Closure Poems / Mary Weems on YouTube / Nomination / Marvin X, Essays on Education (e-Book) |
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I Want Things, Remember Me, The art of seeing the blessings By Ayodele Nzinga |
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Privatizing Education: The Neoliberal Project / Timbuktu Educational Foundation / Timbuktu: Recapturing the Wisdom and History of a Region |
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A. Rita Gaines Reviews Kamau Daáood's
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Tracy Chapman: Baby Can I Hold You Tonight / Talkin bout a revolution / Give me one reason / Crossroad / New Beginning |
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Dr. King Said It: I'm Black and I'm Proud! /Reparations, Queen Mother Moore / Stokely Carmichael—We Ain't Goin' |
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Goodbye, White Friends! White People Aren't into Black People Anymore (Cecil Brown) / Poems from Ten Years of Feelings (Santos Vargas) |
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Turf Dancing in the Rain / WordSlanger@Black World Theater / Staceyann Chin—My First Period / Nigerian Yoruba Movie by Funke Akindele |
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A Tribute to Lucille Clifton (1936 - 2010) Poet Lucille Clifton was a mentor, friend, and teacher to scores of writers in Maryland and around the country. Clifton served as Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland and was Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She received the National Book Award for her poetry collection, Blessing the Boats (2000). Clifton wrote more than 16 books for children. She served as trustee of the Enoch Pratt Free Library from 1975 to 1984.Join us for this celebration of the life of Lucille Clifton. Poets from Baltimore and around the state will raise their voices to honor the memory of Clifton's life and works. We invite you to bring your favorite Lucille Clifton poem to share. Schedule: (click on the location to see map) Central Library Thursday, Jun 24, 2010 (6:30 p.m.) PrattLibrary |
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Kam Hei Tsuei: Hurricane
Katrina: Did
the Chinese Help / Chinatown
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Fela Kuti—Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense / Fela Kuti—U Be Thief / Fela Kuti in Concert / Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 Zombie / Fela Kuti—Shakara |
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Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs / Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Still and Frames |
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ChickenBones Black Arts and Black Power Figures (Compiled by Rudolph Lewis) |
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Kelley, Everett, Dove, Madhubuti Win Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards—By Calvin Reid—Nov 16, 2010—The nonfiction award was presented to Robin D.G. Kelley for Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press) and the fiction prize was presented to Percival Everett for his novel I am Not Sidney Poitier (Graywolf Press). For the first time in the history of the awards, there were two winners for poetry: Haki Madhubuti for Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1966—2009 (Third World Press) and Rita Dove for Sonata Mulattica (W.W. Norton). Winners receive a statue and a cash prize. This year’s event also celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, founded in 1990 by novelist Marita Golden and bibliophile Clyde McElvene as a resource center for writers, readers and supporters of African American literature.—PublishersWeekly |
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Miles Davis: Miles Ahead / Milestones / Kind of Blue / Freddie Freeloader / All Blues / Walkin' / Miles Davis et John Coltrane - So what |
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The Passing of Poet (December 14, 1940—April 2, 2010) |
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Fela Kuti—Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense / Fela Kuti—U Be Thief / Fela Kuti in Concert / Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 Zombie / Fela Kuti—Shakara |
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Tracy Chapman: Baby Can I Hold You Tonight / Talkin bout a revolution / Give me one reason / Crossroad / New Beginning |
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Creative Writing at Dillard / Dillard Faculty Focus / English Faculty Focus Dillard / Dillard Writing Successes / Poems: Red Beans and Ricely Yours |
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An Unmistakable Shade of Red & The Obama Chronicles (Mary E. Weems) / 4 Closure Poems Mary Weems on YouTube / Nomination / |
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For Katie Latimore November 7, 1900 to February 2, 2010 Poem by Glenis Redmond |
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Mutabaruka: Live 1984 / I Am The Man / Johnny Drughead 198X / Butta Pan Kulcha / Whey Mi Belang / |
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Mutabaruka: Reggae Sunsplash-1982 / it no good(to stay in a white man country too long /dispel the lie / Spirituality / Blacks In Amerika |
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We keep coming back and coming back & Other Poems by Kahlil Koromantee / Poetry Foundation |
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The N Word, Go Tell Michele, and other Books By Rudolph Lewis Black Boys and Burning Midnight Oil / Dust Bowls and Wading Pools By Beverly Fields Burnette By Marvin X |
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Love One Another / The Ancestors Are Not Really Dead / Into His Arms / On Learning of Walter Rodney's Death & Other Poems |
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By Kalb Faouly Attimn Tshamba |
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whose really blues (Q. R. Hand Jr.) |
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By Nnedi Okorafor Well-known for young adult novels (The Shadow Speaks; Zahrah the Windseeker), Okorafor sets this emotionally fraught tale in post apocalyptic Saharan Africa. The young sorceress Onyesonwu—whose name means “Who fears death?”—was born Ewu, bearing a mixture of her mother's features and those of the man who raped her mother and left her for dead in the desert. As Onyesonwu grows into her powers, it becomes clear that her fate is mingled with the fate of her people, the oppressed Okeke, and that to achieve her destiny, she must die. Okorafor examines a host of evils in her chillingly realistic tale—gender and racial inequality share top billing, along with female genital mutilation and complacency in the face of destructive tradition—and winds these disparate concepts together into a fantastical, magical blend of grand storytelling |
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Vocal Landscape Poems by Paul Tyler Drawings by Patricia Brown |
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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 |
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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 |
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A Poem by Ayodele Nginga |
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1994 Furious Flower Conference / Etana—Roots / Etana—Wrong Address / Etana—The Strong One / Etana—August Town / Etana—Dont Forget |
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Psychedelic Literature is pleased to announce that the Summer 2010 issue of Black Magnolias Literary Journal is now available. This issue features essays by Dr. Agnieszka Lobodziec (University of Zielona/Poland), Carl Schinasi (Miles College), and Shelia Bonner (Belhaven University), poetry by Rudolph Lewis (Editor of ChickenBones: A Journal) and Nathan Harper aka Urban Raw (Jackson State/Mississippi State) and fiction by Tony Robles (author of two children's book and editor of POOR Magazine) and Katrina Byrd (Playwright in Residence for The Center Players). To purchase a copy or view the complete table of contents and cover art, go to Psychedelic Literature.com/Black Magnolias Black Magnolias Literary Journal is a quarterly that uses poetry, fiction, and prose to examine and celebrate the social, political, and aesthetic accomplishments of African Americans with an emphasis on Afro-Mississippians and Afro-Southerners. We welcome pieces on a variety of African American and Afro-Southern culture, including history, politics, education, incidents/events, social life, and literature. All submissions are to be made by e-mail as a Word attachment to psychedeliclit@bellsouth.net . Each issue costs $12.00, and a year’s subscription is $40.00. |
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Sonnets in Memory of Nathaniel Turner Poet & Prophet of Southampton By Rudolph Lewis Nathaniel Turner TimeLine 1831 Confessions Nathaniel of Southampton or Balaam’s Ass / Grant Creates Nat Turner Tour / Sonnets for Larry Neala |
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Richard Wright Print Resources / China II Report (June 4-19, 2010) / Open Note to President Barack Obama // Searching for the Half Sign (O. R. Dathorne) |
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Mourning Katrina: A Poetic Response to Tragedy . . . is about devastation and mourning, about the failure of humanity to act humanely, about the politics of poverty and race, but it is also about hope and healing. The poets give voice to the rainbow that comes after the storm and the revival of spirit that comes out of the depths of tested faith. All of them share a willingness to see beyond their sorrow to reinvent the spirit of "Laissez les bon temps rouler!" Though human suffering shaped the beginning of this project, the result of it is a morning of hope and inspiration |
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ChickenBones: A Journal has invaded my Sunday School class. Last week, I took a copy of the essay, “The Black Church Is Dead,” from ChickenBones, to class at Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, NJ. Brother Warren read it out loud, and we all discussed it. We are members of a progressive black church, but we weren't always. We have had other experiences, and some not always so positive/ pleasant/nurturing. Cornel West—my Cousin West—calls the author of “The Black Church Is Dead” one of the finest new public intellectuals on the horizon, and he most certainly is, Eddie Glaude, I hope I have the spelling of his name. I just wanted you to know that ChickenBones continues to provide sustenance for constituents far and wide. Its impact upon the black community is most definite.—Sandra L. West |
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Ron Artest Ain’t the Problem! People Did Not Have to Die Another Stolen Election? The Watts Rebellion Protest to Stop Police Brutality |
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Creative Writing at Dillard / Dillard Faculty Focus / English Faculty Focus Dillard / Dillard Writing Successes / Poems: Red Beans and Ricely Yours |
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How US Energy Policy Got Militarized—The association between "energy security" (as it's now termed) and "national security" was established long ago. President Franklin D. Roosevelt first forged this association way back in 1945, when he pledged to protect the Saudi Arabian royal family in return for privileged American access to Saudi oil. The relationship was given formal expression in 1980, when President Jimmy Carter told Congress that maintaining the uninterrupted flow of Persian Gulf oil was a "vital interest" of the United States, and attempts by hostile nations to cut that flow would be countered "by any means necessary, including military force." To implement this "doctrine," Carter ordered the creation of a Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, specifically earmarked for combat operations in the Persian Gulf area. President Ronald Reagan later turned that force into a full-scale regional combat organization, the U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM. Every president since Reagan has added to CENTCOM's responsibilities, endowing it with additional bases, fleets, air squadrons, and other assets. As the country has, more recently, come to rely on oil from the Caspian Sea basin and Africa, U.S. military capabilities are being beefed up in those areas as well. Alternet |
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Communism as Russian Imperialism (Nicholas Berdyaev) / Aboard the African Star / Dublin Quarterly |
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Niyi Juliad: Osundare's Universe of Burdens The Poet's Pen & Other Poems |
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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 |
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Asili Ya Nadhiri and how do you warm / Duh Measur'n Rod / Mama / Corners |
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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 |
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for nia long / Instructions for Your New Osiris / The Cruelty of Age in Lorenzo Thomas' “Tirade” |
Askia on Pan Africanism / Dawnsong! / Osirian Rhapsody: A Myth Rudy Interviews Askia Touré Part 1 Part 2
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Askia M. Touré Askia on Pan Africanism / Black Arts and Black Power Figures / Askia Toure' Talks To Konch / Black Arts Movement / Black Arts and Cultural Revolution (Askia M. Touré) / Dingane Joe Goncalves / Journal of Black Poetry Festival |
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9/11 (Are We Flying the Same Flag Now?) By James Goodwyn |
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The Fourth World and the Marxists Letters from Young Activists Lessons from France Paris Is Burning "The Pyres of Autumn" Responses to Jean Baudrillard Geraldine Robinson remembers The Family of Cow Tom :The Connection of Africans & the Civilized Tribes |
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5 Reviews by 5 Strong Black Women Report to African Union Summit Conversations of Africa Larry Uklai Johnson Redd Table |
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Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd—— Listen to Conversations of Africa by following this link: http://www.conversationsofafrica.asmnetwork.net/ You are invited to listen to this and join in the conversation and make it a discussion by calling in and participating at 347-215-7831! Remember this segment will begin at 8 PM Pacific Standard Time! Conversations of Africa / Attending The Ninth National Black Writers Conference / Larry Uklai Johnson Redd Table |
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Baring My Soul / Kool Aid / Elvis at the dinner party / Breaking Down / Anatacia's Lament / Baring My Soul / Fantasy Island / Sonia's Song / What's Goin On |
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Files for Yictove On the Passing of Malvina Turk American Money Blue Print (Poems) Jammin Mr Politician My Life Story Tropical Love |
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African Slave Castle (video) A Forum on the Role of the Poet and Poetry Poem by Amin Sharif The Free Southern Theatre Institute a Venue for Truth-Telling |
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Cornel West Moves to Princeton West Cites Reason For Quitting Cornel West: An Editorial Pass the Mic Kam Williams Interviews Cornel West |
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Beverly Jenai: Do Cowboys Dance? That Which Binds The Painting My Friend Yictove / Jean-Michel Basquiat : The Radiant Child |
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Did you know . . . April is National Poetry Month We highlight Dudley Randall and Audre Lorde |
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360° A Revolution of Black Poets Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam with Kwame Alexander |
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Reginald Lockett in Memory and Tribute to Oakland’s Poet and Professor |
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Some Gangster Pain By Gillian Conoley Some Gangster Pain Slave Quarter Suddenly the Graves Goat Without Horns / Global News:Politics—Literature & the Arts |
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By Maurine Otor Poems of Love and Pain (Maurine Otor) / Human Rights and Women's Rights |
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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 |
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By Raymond Brookter The Healing Power of Words / Global News:Politics—Literature & the Arts |
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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 |
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(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 |
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Slo Dance Reviews Celebrating the Release Acknowledgements Slo Dance Table Slo Dance Introduction A Real Long Look The Protector Mobutu and Zaire |
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Letter to a Relative: Poem for Leonard Peltier By Ayodele Nzinga |
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Tom Dent Speaks Tom Dent Bio My Father Is Dead Jessie Covington Dent When I Do That Thing |
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By Mary Weems On Almost Meeting Alice Walker Five Poems News at Noon Argo Starch Mary E. Weems Table |
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Man of Fire—Man of Passion by C.P. Gause, PhD / Poems by Andrea Barnwell To Myself: Lists The Sudan January Again Rain Poem |
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By Craig A. Garner |
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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 |
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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) |
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The Wondrous Wanda Coleman Poems & Stories She Writes |
Yictove Obituary & PoemsWritten by daughter, Chie Lunn
Before Becoming Historical / Yictove (Eugene Turk) made his transition suddenly Saturday evening, July 28th 2007 |
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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 |
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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 |
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The Afro-Blues Tradition: Glorious Child of The Africans By Kwame A F Copeland |
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By Tony Medina I and I Bob Marley / Love to Langston / Christmas Makes Me Think / DeShawn Days / Committed to Breathing |
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The Different Flavors of Words By Claudia Saul |
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My Grandma Rocks the Cradle and Rules the World & Other Poems by Ellen Dunbar |
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Writings by Ng'ethe Githinji I Am Not Superman #1 Twenty Short Stories of Love |
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37 Poems by Lasana Sekou taught at US university
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Poet, Activist, Sonia Sanchez Reading Toni Cade Bambara / Kalamu ya Salaam Tribute to Toni Cade Bambara
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your
Christ
but I
don't
like
your
Christians,
your
Christians
are so
unlike
your
Christ"—Gandhi
The
Autobiography of Medgar Evers
A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His
Writings, Letters, and Speeches
2006 By Myrlie
Evers-Williams and Manning Marable /
Bob
Dylan—Only
a pawn in their game (video) /The
Ballad of Medgar Evers
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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 |
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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 |
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Laura Ivers --What's For Supper The Proliferation of a Lie NEGLECT The Price of Ignorance Textbook Victimization A Letter To Langston Hughes
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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 |
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Paula M. Patton-Ross -- Miss La Reba Potato's Salad Tell Me Where AfterGlow |
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By Arif Ay Poems Translated by Mevlut Ceylan Carnations Guerrilla Here Looking at Istanbul Ostlers & Doomsday Parting Poems of Destruction RAMP REQUIEM |
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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. |
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A sudden thought for you & Other Poems By Paul McIntosh |
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Kalamu ya Salaam Reports: Post-Katrina New Orleans I Love You It's Hard I'm Crazy Cracking Up Stephanie Take Deep Breaths Spirits in the Dark I Am Ashamed of Myself Breath of Life The Storyteller of New Orleans by Elizabeth D. / LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE: The Neo-Griot New Orleans Project Reconstruction of a Poet: The Call: Ideology or Poetry? My Life Is the Blues Producing & Recording Poetry A Black Poetics African-American Language What Is Life: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self (Kalamu ya Salaam) |
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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 |
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Speak the Truth to the People by Mari Evans We're in the Same Boat Brother by Huddie Ledbetter |
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Poems by Cheryl W. Robinson -- Weather It Is / WE / River of Living Waters |
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Red Beans and Ricely Yours
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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
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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 |
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ChickenBones Poetry Book for 2006 Poems by Caroline Maun Reviewed by Rudolph Lewis Katrina Faceless / The Red Rat Snake / Colors / Poems from Ten Years of Feelings (Santos Vargas) |
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Red Beans and Ricely Yours
(2005) |
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Poems by Godspower Oboido: MONSTERS WHAT'S HAPPENING TO MAMA'S LAND |
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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 |
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Remembering Chinwe History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry Waiting for You My Beautiful Wife Journey to the Motherland |
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Poems by Glenis Redmond |
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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… |
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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 |
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Poems, Essays, Reports, etc. Katrina
by
Caroline Maun There's
Another New Orleans: |
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Kalamu ya Salaam The Call: Ideology or Poetry? My Life Is the Blues Producing & Recording Poetry A Black Poetics African-American Language |
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Poems by Yictove That Town Grandma Turk Tropical Love Poems By Jennifer Brown Banks |
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Poems by Jennifer Brown Banks The Paradox of Racism The Leather Pants CAN A WHITE WOMAN DO THIS? City Living Angry Black Man |
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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 |
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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
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Sultan Poets
Psalms
by Mevlut Ceylan
Ahmed Ali (1910-1994) Ceylan Index Mevlut Ceylan Interviews Rudy on Poetic Process |
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Skin Poems by Drisana Deborah Jack Introduction saturday night a poet's farewell waterpoem 5 |
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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 |
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Minna Tsuei Poems Hurricane Katrina: Did the Chinese Help Chinatown Blues |
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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 |
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We keep coming back and coming back & Other Poems by Kahlil Koromantee |
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Poeting, Hustling & the Black Aesthetic |
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Check out Flowers' Meditations on the Longgame, and his -- Rootsblog: A Cyberhoodoo Webspace |
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Richard Wright and Our Contemporary Situation 250 years of African-American Poetry By Jerry W. Ward, Jr. The Art of Tom Dent: Early Evidence
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the Hurricanes |
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NOLA
SPEAKS Portrait
of a Suicide/Death in Yellow Flooding
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Sitting
ducks at the superdome It Ain't
About Race Poems by Claire Carew
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Kam Hei Tsuei: Hurricane
Katrina: Did
the Chinese Help / Chinatown
Blues /
Minna
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By Bro. Yao hell poem #2 clouds they make a wall against armageddon Reggie with the Box Top guitar |
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Save Me from All These Pimps by Esther Iverem / SeeingBlack.Com Editor and Film Critic / Literature & Arts
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African Slave Castle (video) A Forum on the Role of the Poet and Poetry Poem by Amin Sharif The Free Southern Theatre Institute a Venue for Truth-Telling |
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Fishbone & Blues Mystic Mam-A-Jama Poems by Dorothy Marie Rice
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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 |
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Chandra Lewis -- Black Man Where Do You Stand On the Wing of a Prayer A Shared Moment Back in Swamp Briars2 |
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Neo-Folklore Beachhead Preachment Opened a Channel to the Ancestors Another Soldier Gone Candelight Vigil for Ahmos Zu-Bolton |
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Poems by Ras Baraka Sample poems #1 #4 There Are Some Black Men |
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| For Tom Dent's work with young writers, read Kalamu's Art for Life: My Story, My Song, especially When I Do That Thing |
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What's Happening @ Sista's Place Lest We Forget Killens Scattered Scripture Inside
the River of Poetry Filiberto Ojeda Rios Scattered Scripture jorge's journey Rivera Bio On the Passing of Rich Bartee |
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The Sultan Poets The Royal Poets of Turkey Translations by Mevlut Ceylan |
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Driving the Blues Away: Or Dying by Degrees (Rudolph Lewis) Responses to “Driving the Blues Away”
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Ode to a Magic City |
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By Van G. Garrett
The Cruelty of Age in Lorenzo Thomas' “Tirade” African Folktales & Modern Thought |
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Nidaa Khoury, Palestinian Poet Signs Agreementwith Caribbean Publisher Lasana M. Sekou Haiti 200 Tortured Fragments Visit & Fellowship IILasana M. Sekou |
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The Black Arts Movement Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s By James Edward Smethurst / ChickenBones Black Arts and Black Power Figures |
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The Importance of Civil Disobedience in Post-Katrina New Orleans By Elizabeth Cook Katrina New Orleans Flood Index |
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Haiku by Kalamu ya Salaam --from Nia: Haiku, Sonnets, and Sun Songs (2002)
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