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• Writing the New, Finishing the Old - It's a Matter of Keys

  November 14, 2008

  •     Yesterday I finally finished the next chapter in the novella I am writing.
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• Obama- Post election -The Black Vote and the Work Left to Do

  November 11, 2008

  •     It has been several presidential elections since I conceded to vote for evil, the lesser of two evils that is, a capitulation in the face of fear.
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• Miriam Makeba - An African Song

  November 11, 2008

  •     I grew up in a home where mostly jazz was washed the walls of our flat., jazz without vocals, without words, with loads of bop but no ditty.  That and what was to me then a stream of dull talk
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• Looking through the Day of Flying Flags and Speeches

  July 4, 2008

  • July 4th is always problematic for me. Yes, I know there is also Louis Armstrong to remember and celebrate, and Ted Joans too.
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• Movement Mothers

  June 29, 2008

  • We women who came of age during the Black Power Movement, the Peace Movement, the Free Speech Movement, and yes the Feminist Movement continue to move in a circle that is, almost always, far diff
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• State of Exile- a brief review

  June 25, 2008

  • “If exile were not a terrible experience, it would be a literary genre.” So begins Christina Peri Rossi in her prologue to her moving book of poetry State of Exile, translated by Maril

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• Two Summers, One Agenda 1866, 2008

  June 13, 2008

  • It was the summer of 1866. Congress with much rancor and many protests passed the 13th amendment.
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• The Music of Hope

  June 4, 2008

  • “If you live with hope you’re dancing to a terrible tune.” My sister of time and family, if not shared parentage, is reading me a line of graffiti she sees scrawled on the wall as she ride
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• Reginald Lockett (1947-2008)

  May 21, 2008

  • A poet and a friend- his passing hit so many communities hard. It was so unexpected. He was older, but not close to old.

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• Left Curve #32 - Release party

  April 28, 2008

  • Last week I went to the release party for Left Curve magazine #32.
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• Two Poets Move from Flesh to Spirit

  April 21, 2008

  • When poets die their words are their monuments. The songs they wove over their decades, few, or many, become the maps of their lives.
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• Monogamy and the Multi-Genre Writer

  April 1, 2008

  • My agent wishes I would be monogamous, asks me to choose the one writing bed I will sleep in.

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• Writing and Procrastination Rituals

  March 26, 2008

  • Years ago I was having a discussion with a fellow

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• Sayin' Something

  March 20, 2008

  • Hello You,

    And thanks for visiting my page.

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