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Index

Mosquitoes Fly Out My Head

Poems & Other Jazz 

By Rudolph Lewis

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)                     

Sussex County: A Tale of Three Centuries  Public Education in Sussex County   The Official History of Jerusalem Baptist Church  Stith-Mason Family Reunion

 

Letters of an Abiding Faith:

Legacy of a Slave's GrandDaughter to her Son

written by Ella Lewis to her Son (Rudolph Lewis)

Introduction  Table of Contents

  Mama's Letters from Jerusalem : Beyond the Potomac or Beyond the Atlantic

Poems from Mockingbirds at Jerusalem  (Rudolph Lewis)

 

Nina Remembers in I Put a Spell on You

A Review by Rudolph Lewis

An Angelic Trio by Vince Rogers

Poems by Rudolph Lewis Starlight by Starlight  Somebody Been Stealing  Pigmeat & Catfish  News Hour Scrapbook  Me & First Woman   Keeping It Trim & Burning  Fourth World Poems  Postcard from Hell  Ode to Bowling Balls  When They Flooded New Orleans  The street I live on is dying  Will the people ever wake up?  I Choose Us: The African  For Stan Tookie Williams

Fourth World Poems (Lewis)  -- Raining in This Terrible Land   A New Day Is Coming   Waiting for the Great Tragedy  A Sideshow in Your Mind  

Finally an interview:

African American Writers: Meet Rudolph Lewis
The man behind ChickenBones
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By Jane Musoke-Nteyafas
First published: April 18, 2006

Masculinity Manliness Violence  (Rudolph Lewis) / A Depravity of Logic (Rodney D. Foxworth, Jr.)

Mevlut Interviews Rudy A Poetic Journey with Writers in New Orleans   Exploring Sexuality from a Black Perspective   

 

The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones

By Amiri Baraka

Commentary by Rudolph Lewis

   A Plea from Amiri Baraka

 

 

 

 Southern Journey

A Return to the Civil Rights Movement

By Tom Dent

Reviewed by Rudolph Lewis

A Review of Brian Johnson’s  Du Bois on Reform (2005) Du Bois & Civil Religion Social Role of Black Journalism By Rudolph Lewis

Urban Legends: Paul Coates and Rudy Lewis

Offer Alternatives to the Current Crop of Contemporary Black Literature

By R. Darryl Foxworth

A Life Won with Blood & Tears A Review of  Mona Lisa Saloy's Red Beans and Ricely Yours (2005) By Rudolph Lewis

 For Frank Fitch  /  For Daddy V  /  Mother with Me on Canal Street  / Visited Home on Monday

Post-Katrina poems:  Heartbreak Hotel   No Mardi Gras Without Soul   Postcard from Hell  Ode to Bowling Balls   Naked in the Outer Darkness

  Music That Heals   That Which Hurts  In a Time of Chaos    Down by the Riverside      I Aint No Alarmist  Wintertime in America  The Propaganda of History 

   No Mardi Gras Without Soul    We'll Never Be Back the Same Again    Which Way Freedom  Mosquitoes Fly Out My Head

 

Last Man Standing — for Bea Crockett

By Rudolph Lewis

    Understanding "Last Man Standing"   

Telling the Truth about Africa  Letting Her Become What She Can and Will Be By Rudolph Lewis

 

 

Tending One’s Own Garden

 A Review of Bernard Shaw’s 1933 Fable

The Adventures of Black Girl in Her Search for God

By Rudolph Lewis

For Walter Cotton, Outlaw -- lynched by Emporia, VA, March 24, 1900 / By Rudolph Lewis /  Confessions of Walter Cotton

 

 Folk Life in Black and White

Martha Washington's Colored Granddaughter 

 Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4  

An Archival Search for Sterling Brown

Maria Syphax, Historical Revision, or a Communist Plot

By Rudolph Lewis

Maria Syphax Case Table  William Syphax: A Pioneer 

Exploring Sexuality from a Black Perspective A Review of Mya B’s Silence: In Search of Black Female Sexuality in America by Rudolph Lewis

 

Interpretation in Small Containers   Turned On About Two Dreaming You

A Hymn to Kola Boof  

By Rudolph Lewis

  Bio-Chronology of Kola's Life      My Master, My Husband

Driving the Blues Away Or Dying By Degrees   Responses to “Driving the Blues Away”   Home to Jerusalem  

Introduction 

I AM NEW ORLEANs By Marcus B. Christian 

 By Rudolph Lewis

Rudy's Blues-- Poem for Evelyn Master Jack Turns Them Black    That Aint Gonna Work, At All     Smokescreen for a Holy Presence   Big Girls Can Handle Absence     Fishing Strong on the Moon    He Aint Giving Up No Secrets  Bottoms Up, One More Round  Always in Love the First Time    Murmuring in the Smoke of Veils  Potomac Dreams of André Breton  ShadowBoxing Truth on Druid Hill   Master Jack Turns Them Black

Nathaniel Turner TimeLine   1831 Confessions 

Nathaniel Turner: Christian Martyrdom in Southampton 

By Rudolph Lewis

     Nathaniel Turner Forum  Nat Turner in History by Felicia Lee  12 Sonnets in Memory of Nathaniel Turner

Walter Hall Lively (1942-1976)     /     Robert B. Moore    /    Max Wilson

State of Race & Class Oppression

State of the Dream   White Privilege Shapes the U.S.   State Of Black America   state of black nation 2005   The State of the Dream 2005

  Myths of Low-Wage Workers      Skip Gates and the Talented Fifth  Responses to Skip Gates  The State of HBCUs   The State of Black Journalism  

 Living Scripture in Community  What Would "Dr. Kang" Say?   Which Way Freedom   Social Role of Black Journalism 

 Bush cronies turning campuses dissent-free   Howard Protest  Corporate Plantation: Political Repression and the Hampton Model

 

Robert "Kaki" McQueen

Baltimore's #1 Ragamuffin Artist & Musician

By Rudolph Lewis

  

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Isaac in Heaven: An Interview Review of a Patriarchal Tale  

 

Jessie Covington Dent

 

     Albert Dent Letter 

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     My Father Is Dead

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Leading the Negro into Modernity Turner, Washington, & Du Bois

 

Marcus Bruce Christian

     Christian's BioBibliographical Record   

     Introduction to I AM NEW ORLEANS 

     Magpies, Goddesses, & Black Male Identity   

     A Theory of a Black Aesthetic 

 

Max Wilson Professor of  Philosophy, In Memory of

 

Nathaniel of Southampton or Balaam’s Ass God’s Revelations in the Virginia Wilderness

 

Robert "Kaki" McQueen Baltimore's #1 Ragamuffin Artist & Musician

 

A Theology of Obligation & Liberation The Poor & Oppressed in the Pentateuch  

 

Walter Hall Lively (1942-1976) Civil Rights Activist & Black Liberator

 

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