Young’s New Poetry Collection Retraces the South Emory University professor and poet Kevin Young has released a collection of poems, titled “For the Confederate Dead,” about returning to the South and “wrestling with some of the demons of history and war.” “Both of my parents were from Louisiana, rural southern segregated Louisiana, and … Continue reading
Who is Lucy Terry and why have I never heard of her before this Friday? It would have been a sense of pride to hear her name when I was six, ten or even fifteen while sitting on a cold February day in class reciting annual Black History Month songs about the Dr Reverend King, … Continue reading
Poet: Joy Harjo She had some horses she loved. She had some horses she hated. These were the same horses. http://www.joyharjo.com/Home.html ——————————————— True Path Walkers Obligations of the True Path Walkers To bring back the natural harmony that humans once enjoyed. To save the planet from present practices of destruction. To find and re-employ real … Continue reading
I was given a gift bag from the Director of Marketing at a gig I had a week ago that ended the day before my birthday. The gifts were totally unexpected, beautifully wrapped, with a gold thank you card, lip gloss, a graphic color book, and a copy of Angelou’s “Phenomenal Woman”. The few days … Continue reading
JOURNAL:: THE OPENING I am much like ma Grand-Pere, Victorious Leon Boniface Giraud, a Creole (artist, singer, silver smith) chef whose Carib-Afro-Franco dishes soothed the projects of Soundview. All kinds of neighborhood women were in and out of his spotless house singing “That Giraud, sure can cook!” young, old, dark brown, mulatto women of the … Continue reading
Can you believe my body was craving cabbage–raw cabbage? Doesn’t sound very tasty, not even to me, but I guess my body knows on a molecular level just what it needs. It’s been about a year since I had dropped my strictly vegetarian diet for a ‘just-about-anything “sad” diet (Standard American Diet). Food choice, like … Continue reading
