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Poems
Ahmose Zu-Bolton
Beachhead Preachment
Candelight Vigil
Neo-Folklore
ZuBolton Channels Ancestors
Amin Sharif
Amin Sharif
Big
Easy Blues
The
Day the Devil Has Won
Caroline Maun
Katrina
Clair Carew
Claire Carew
It Ain't
About Race
Sitting
ducks at the superdome
Denay Fields
A
Survivor's Poem
Eleanor
Early
Lives and Times of the Quadroons
Jerry
Ward
After
the Hurricanes
NOLA
SPEAKS
Portrait
of a Suicide/Death in Yellow Flooding
Joe
Williams
I'm
in the Eye of Katrina
Jordan
Flaherty
The Battle
for New Orleans Continues
Fifth Anniversary of
Katrina
Jena Ignites a
Movement
K-Ville
(TV Show Review)
Media Crisis
and Grassroots Response
Nooses and a
legal lynching in Jena, Louisiana
NOPD Verdict Reveals Post-Katrina History
Notes from Inside New Orleans
Strange
Fruit in Jena
World Social Forum Diary
Jose Torres Tama
Above America
God Fear America
Hard
Living in the Big Easy
In Exile Close to the Equator
Stars
Are Eyes
Kalamu ya
Salaam
Kalamu ya Salaam
my father is dead, again
Tom Dent Bio
GHOSTS
WE ARE ACHIEVERS
There's no big accomplishment
Have You Ever Been a Saxophone
Screamers
Latorial
Faison
After
Katrina . . .
Lee
M. Grue
At the
French Market
Booker:
Black Night Keep on Falling
Billie
Pierce
Ellis
Marsalis on Wednesday at Snug Harbor
Jazzmen
Miss
Marva Wright
Turbinton:
The African Cowboy at Charlie B's
Walter
Washington
Waiting
Young Men in Wheel Chairs
Legendary KO
George
Bush Doesn't Care
Mackie
Blanton
After Katrina
Chapter I (Neighbors
and Invaders)
Chapter 2 ( Earthquakes and Baklava)
Chapter 3
(The Lens in Plato’s Eye)
Neighbors
and Invaders
Marcus
Bruce Christian
Marcus Bruce Christian
Poems
Marvin X
Marvin
X
Where's
Fats Domino?
Mimi Read
Germaine Bazzle
Mona
Lisa Saloy,
; Winner
of the the 2005 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
For
Frank Fitch For Daddy V
Mother with Me on Canal Street, New
Orleans
Winner of the PEN Oakland
National Literary Award
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, author
of Monrovia Women
There's
Another New Orleans
P r o f e s s o r A R T U R O
Malcolm
My Name is New
Orleans
Poem for Our
Fathers
Shine & the Titanic
Robert Borsodi
Remembering Borsodi
Rudolph Lewis Mosquitoes
Fly Out My Head
Address
on the Battle for New Orleans
Can You Quilt a Life, Now
Dead?
Didn't He Ramble (Buddy
Bolden)
Down by the
Riverside
Dropping
Shucks on Baudin
Heartbreak
Hotel
Home Aint No Cakewalk
I Gave My Heart to That
Woman
Mosquitoes Fly Out My Head
My Room
Without You
A New Day Is
Coming
No
Mardi Gras Without Soul
No Woman to Be Rollin
Ode to a Magic
City
The
Propaganda of History
Raining
in This Terrible Land
A Sideshow in Your
Mind
There's No Way Out This
Sadness?
Waiting
for the Great Tragedy
We
Be No More Than We
What Does It Mean to
Survive N'awlins
What
Shall It Be, Stick or Broom?
When They Flooded New
Orleans
Wintertime
in America
Your Love Ain't Loving My
Blues (Satchmo & horn)
Tom Dent
Return to English Turn
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Prose
Jerry
Ward
The Art of Tom Dent: Early Evidence
Tom Dent Bio
The
Katrina Papers
On
Richard Wright and Our Contemporary Situation
Trouble
the Water (book)
Kalamu ya
Salaam Table
Forty-Five
Is Not So Old (story)
Could
You Wear My Eyes (story)
Murder
(story)
Raoul's
Silver Song (story)
Tom Dent & Nkombo
What Is Black Poetry
(essay)
WORDS:
A Neo-Griot Manifesto (essay)
Kam Hei
Tsuei
Hurricane
Katrina: Did
the Chinese Help
Lee M. Grue
French Quarter Poems -- Introduction
Marcus
Bruce Christian
Diary
Notes
Letters
Marcus Bruce Christian
Rachel Breunlin
The Legacy of the Free Southern
Theater in New Orleans
Rudolph
Lewis Mosquitoes
Fly Out My Head
Christian's
Bio-Bibliographical Record (literary essay on Christian)
The
Conspiracy to Whiten New Orleans
(editorial)
Feminism,
Black Erotica, & Revolutionary Love (on
Kalamu's short stories)
Introduction to I AM NEW
ORLEANS (literary essay on Christian)
Jessie
Covington Dent
(a biographical sketch)
A
Life Won with Blood & Tears (book review Red
Beans and Ricely Yours,
2005)
Poetic
Journey with New Orleans Writers (a biographical essay)
Tom Dent Bio
Southern
Journey (Review of Tom Dent's book)
A
Theory of a Black Aesthetic (literary
essay on Christian)
Tom Dent
The Art of Tom Dent
(Jerry Ward essay)
Jessie Covington Dent (bio
of mother)
Dillard Project (letter by father)
The Legacy of the Free Southern Theater in New Orleans
My Father Is Dead (Kalamu poem)
Southern
Journey (book Review)
Tom
Dent
Tom Dent & Nkombo
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Reports
Ahmose
ZuBolton
Ahmos Zu-Bolton HooDoo Poet
Candelight
Vigil for Ahmos Zu-Bolton
Chuck Siler
Call
for Artists and Photographers
Katrina . . . somethin'
'bout a storm
Jordan Flaherty
Jena Ignites a
Movement
K-Ville (TV Show Review)
Media Crisis and Grassroots
Response
Media as a Weapon: New Orleans' 2-Cent
Notes from Inside New Orleans
On the Fifth Anniversary of Katrina Displacement Continues
World Social Forum Diary
Kalamu ya
Salaam
at Clemson in Baltimore at
MIT
in houston in Dallas
Kalamu ya Salaam
Table
kalamu
visits home
Listen
to the People Update
Kam Williams
Strange
Fruit in Jena
Katrina
New Orleans Flood Index
Katrina & Kalamu (Rudy,
Miriam, Clare, and others)
Magical
Negro: The Root (Arthur Flowers)
New Orleans
Flood Relief Bulletin Board (lots of people)
(8/ 31- 9/ 1) (9/
2) 9/
3 9/
4 9/
5/2005
Robert
Borsodi
Remembering Borsodi
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Poems on Katrina Flood
After
Katrina . . . (Latorial Faison)
After
the Hurricanes (Jerry Ward)
Battle for New Orleans
(
Rudolph
Lewis)
Big
Easy Blues (Amin Sharif )
I'm
in the Eye of Katrina
(Joe Williams)
It Ain't
About Race
(Claire Carew)
Neighbors
and Invaders (Mackie Blanton)
Sitting
ducks at the superdome (Claire Carew)
A
Survivor's Poem (Denay Fields)
Where's
Fats Domino? (Marvin
X)
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Related files
17 Poets Reading Series
at the GOLD MINE SALOON
Big Chief Allison Tootie
Montana
Katrina
New Orleans Flood Index
Literary New Orleans: Poems
and Prose
Mosquitoes
Fly Out My Head
Saint Augustine Closed
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Obama Remarks at Xavier
University
YouTube
- The Jena Six /
Nooses and a
legal lynching in Jena, Louisiana /
Jordan Flaherty about New Orleans
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Audio:
My Story, My Song (Featuring blues guitarist Walter Wolfman Washington)
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The Katrina Papers is not your
average memoir. It is a fusion of many kinds of
writing, including intellectual autobiography,
personal narrative, political/cultural analysis,
spiritual journal, literary history, and poetry.
Though it is the record of one man's experience of
Hurricane Katrina, it is a record that is fully a
part of his life and work as a scholar, political
activist, and professor.
The Katrina Papers provides space not only for the traumatic events but
also for ruminations on authors such as Richard
Wright and theorists like Deleuze and Guattarri. The
result is a complex though thoroughly accessible
book. The struggle with form—the search for a
medium proper to the complex social, personal, and
political ramifications of an event unprecedented in
this scholar's life and in American social history—lies at the very heart of
The Katrina Papers . It
depicts an enigmatic and multi-stranded world view
which takes the local as its nexus for understanding
the global. It resists the temptation to simplify
or clarify when simplification and clarification are
not possible. Ward's narrative is, at times, very
direct, but he always refuses to simplify the
complex emotional and spiritual volatility of the
process and the historical moment that he is
witnessing. The end result is an honesty that is
both pedagogical and inspiring.—Hank Lazer
The Richard Wright Encyclopedia (2008)
is a marvelous resource! It's not like any
encyclopedia I've seen before. Already, I have spent hours reading
through the various entries. So much is there: people, themes,
issues, events, bibliographies, etc., related to Wright. Yours is a
monumental contribution! The more I read Wright (and about him), the
more I am amazed at the depth and breadth of his work and its impact
on the worlds of literature, philosophy, politics, sociology,
history, psychology, etc. He was formidable!
Floyd W. Hayes
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn
Ward
On
one level,
Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s
about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What
makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with
that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of
pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and
abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical
tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the
voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among
four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely
in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and
alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like
wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . .
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Black Rage in New
Orleans
Police
Brutality and African
American Activism from
World War II to
Hurricane Katrina
By
Leonard N. Moore
In
Black Rage in New
Orleans,
Leonard N. Moore traces
the shocking history of
police corruption in the
Crescent City from World
War II to Hurricane
Katrina and the
concurrent rise of a
large and energized
black opposition to it.
In New Orleans, crime,
drug abuse, and murder
were commonplace, and an
underpaid, inadequately
staffed, and poorly
trained police force
frequently resorted to
brutality against
African Americans.
Endemic corruption among
police officers
increased as the city’s
crime rate soared,
generating anger and
frustration among New
Orleans’s black
community. Rather than
remain passive, African
Americans in the city
formed anti-brutality
organizations, staged
marches, held sit-ins,
waged boycotts,
vocalized their concerns
at city council
meetings, and demanded
equitable treatment. . .
. The first book-length
study of police
brutality and African
American protest in a
major American city,
Black Rage in New
Orleans will prove
essential for anyone
interested in race
relations in America’s
urban centers.
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Disintegration: The Splintering of Black
America
By
Eugene Robinson
In this
clear-eyed and compassionate study, Robinson
(Coal to Cream), Pulitzer Prize–winning
journalist for the Washington Post, marshals
persuasive evidence that the
African-American population has splintered
into four distinct and increasingly
disconnected entities: a small elite with
enormous influence, a mainstream
middle-class majority, a newly emergent
group of recent immigrants from Africa and
the Caribbean, and an abandoned minority
"with less hope of escaping poverty than at
any time since Reconstruction's end."
Drawing on census records, polling data,
sociological studies, and his own
experiences growing up in a segregated South
Carolina college town during the 1950s,
Robinson explores 140 years of black history
in America, focusing on how the civil rights
movement, desegregation, and affirmative
action contributed to the fragmentation. Of
particular interest is the discussion of how
immigrants from Africa, the "best-educated
group coming to live in the United States,"
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Robinson notes that despite the enormous strides
African-Americans have made in the past 40 years,
the problems of poor blacks remain more intractable
than ever, though his solution--"a domestic Marshall
Plan aimed at black America"--seems implausible in
this era of cash-strapped state and local
governments.—Publishers
Weekly
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Life on Mars
By Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith, author of Life on Mars has been selected as the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In its review of the book, Publishers Weekly noted the collection's "lyric brilliance" and "political impulses [that] never falter." A New York Times review stated, "Smith is quick to suggest that the important thing is not to discover whether or not we're alone in the universe; it's to accept—or at least endure—the universe's mystery. . . . Religion, science, art: we turn to them for answers, but the questions persist, especially in times of grief. Smith's pairing of the philosophically minded poems in the book’s first section with the long elegy for her father in the second is brilliant." Life on Mars follows Smith's 2007 collection, Duende, which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, the only award for poetry in the United States given to support a poet's second book, and the first Essence Literary Award for poetry, which recognizes the literary achievements of African Americans. The Body’s Question (2003) was her first published collection.
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The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story
of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
By Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer
American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years the dominant metaphor for understanding markets and government has been the machine. Liu and Hanauer view democracy not as a machine, but as a garden. A successful garden functions according to the inexorable tendencies of nature, but it also requires goals, regular tending, and an understanding of connected ecosystems. The latest ideas from science, social science, and economics—the cutting-edge ideas of today—generate these simple but revolutionary ideas: (The economy is not an efficient machine. It’s an effective garden that need tending. Freedom is responsibility. Government should be about the big what and the little how. True self interest is mutual interest. |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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