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Permanent Rain
By Ekere Tallie On Gypsy Hill
I learn to admire
the texture of a cloudy sky,
I watch a rainbow
arch its back
across Brixton.
An island woman
prepares a feast
of curry and callaloo
hoping to lure the sun back,
to help her survive another
day hour minute
but the rain is permanent,
she turns every raindrop
into a stick, her umbrella
becomes a steel drum
and when she dances down the street
in the pouring rain
some whisper
"She's a little loopy yeah?"
but others know
she is missing home.
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Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie is a poet, writer and
journalist. Her poetry and fiction have been published in several
journals in the United States, France and South Africa including: Bomb,
Long Shot, Paris/Atlantic,
Drumvoices Revue, Carapace. Her works have been anthologized in
Listen
Up! (One World/Ballantine) and
Catch
The Fire!!! (Penguin/ Putnam) Bum Rush The Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Random
House), Role Call (Third World Press). Ms. Tallie is
Contributing Writer for African Voices
literary magazine where she has worked since 1995. Ms. Tallie performs
her poetry regularly and has been a featured reader at the De
Nachten Festivals in Holland and Belgium, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe,
Brooklyn Moon Cafe, Rutgers University, Hunter College, Barnes and
Noble, Bryant
Park, Mills College, Brooklyn Public library. She has collaborated with
dancers and musicians, most notably for the "Jazz and the Spoken
Word "segment of the Panasonic Village Jazz Festival, with Mingus
Amungus in California and Words and Waistbeads Womans Collective in New
York City. Ms Tallie also worked with Gerard Gaskin and Caroline Poon
for an exhibition of words, photography and pottery titled "The
Experiment." In 1999 Ms. Tallie was awarded a residency at
Fundacion Valparaiso in Almeria, Spain. She has work forthcoming in Beyond The
Frontier, (Black Classic Press),
The Body Eclectic
(Henry Holt)
and
The Book of Hope (Beyond Borders).
http://www.ekeretallie.com
Master of Fine Arts English/Creative Writing Mills College, Dec 2001 /
Ploughshares International Writing Seminar Kasteel Well, Netherlands Emerson
College, 1998
Bachelor of Arts, Mass Communication Clark Atlanta University, 1996
/ "Love is a story that we never stop telling"
Veronique Tadjo
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Karma’s Footsteps
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
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ChickenBones Black Arts and Black Power Figures (Compiled by Rudolph Lewis) |
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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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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