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Send contributions to: ChickenBones: A Journal / 2005 Arabian Drive / Finksburg, MD 21048— I became aware of Rudy Lewis labor of love a few short months ago during a visit to Kalamu ya Salaams 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 thats 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 hed consider publishing some of my work. His response was immediate, and a couple of days after Id forwarded some poems to himthey were part of ChickenBones. What I didnt 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)
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 acceptor at least endurethe 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 books 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 Bodys Question (2003) was her first published collection. Smith said Life on Mars, published by small Minnesota press Graywolf, was inspired in part by her father, who was an engineer on the Hubble space telescope and died in 2008.
Nelson) / Carver: A Life in Poems / Marilyn Nelson Awarded Frost Medal / Murders of Till / The Shocking Story
Barack Obama: The corporate masters 21st century House Negro / A Day in the LifeMarvin X and Discussion
A Day in the Life 2 / A Day in the LifeMarvin X and Discussion 3 / Greetings from Japan (Anastacia Tolbert)
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 / Ekere Tallie Table
Her Voice / Mother Nature: Thoughts on Nourishing Your Body, Mind, and Spirit During Pregnancy and Beyond www.ekeretallie.com
Carrie Mae WeemsArt: 21 / Carrie Mae Weems Talks/ Rev Curtis WatsonCome Out of the Wilderness / Louis ArmstrongMack the Knife 1959
Schomburg: Chronicler of the Black Diaspora
a Precursor of Biracial America
The past we inherit. The future we create.
Poem by Kalamu ya Salaam
Buddy Tate – Mack The Knife / Ben Webster – Chelsea Bridge (1964) / Lester Young 1944Blue Lester / The Cry of Jazz (1959) Part 1 of 4
By Craig A. Garner
Other Books Books by Craig A. Garner: A Poetic Purpose to My Life / ChickenBones Black Arts and Black Power Figures (Compiled by Rudolph Lewis)
Was the CIA involved in Libya’s revolution? / Noam ChomskyUSA has extreme contempt for democracy / Tuareg minority flees Libya / Wayfarer 4th Quarter 1967Black Baltimore magazine
Pelican HeartAn Anthology of Poems by Lasana M. Sekou
Edited by Emio Jorge Rodriguez
Passion for the Nation is what comes out of Sekous poems at a first glance and at a deeper reading. The book is a selection gathered from eleven of Sekous poetry collections between 1978 and 2010. Rodríguez is an independent Cuban academic, writer, and essayist. He has been a researcher at Casa de las Américass Literary Research Center and founded the literary journal Anales del Caribe (1981-2000). María Teresa Ortega translated the poems from the original English to Spanish. A critical introduction, detailed footnotes, and a useful glossary by Rodríguez are also found in the book of 428 pages. The collection has been launched at conferences in Barbados, Cuba, and Mexico.
Rodriguezs introduction to Pelican Heart refers to Dr. Howard Ferguss Love Labor Liberation in Lasana Sekou, which is the critical commentary to Sekous work that identifies three cardinal points in his poetics. I would add as cardinal points: Belief or Driving Force of people in political processes, like his political commitment to make St. Martin independent, as the southern part of the Caribbean island is a territory of the Netherlands, while the northern part is a French Collectivité doutre-mer.Sara Florian / Lasana Sekou
Romare Bearden’s Southern Sensibility / The song that lies silent in the heart of a mother sings upon the lips of her child. (Kahlil Gibran)
Devil in a Blue Dress and Cinnamon Kiss (Mimi Ferebee) / We Can’t Afford To Not Fix Justice System (Benjamin Todd Jealous)
Poem by Jeannette Drake
Jeannette Drake Table / The Truth May Not Set Us Free / Give Peace a Chance / Obama Prayer / Poems from Richmond VA www.jeannettedrake.com
There’s no big accomplishment in acting white (after being subjected to some third stream muzak) / I Choose Us: The African Mosquitoes Fly Out My Head
By Latorial Faison
When We Were Poor Revelations Sounds of Blackness Chaos
Ekere Tallie —Forced Entry A Poem for A Man WhoKnows Elemental Sounds Permanent Rain Reunion Jazz Musicians Suddenly I Need One Thing Constant
Dr Asa Hilliard III speaks: Attack On Africans Writing Their Own History Part 1 of 7 / Part 2 of 7 / Part 3 of 7 / Part 4 of 7 / Part 5 of 7 / Part 6 of 7 / Part 7 of 7
Has the Essence Train Been Gone?
Lucille Clifton Still Missed and Always Loved
The African Medicine Women of New Jersey / Try Jah Love (Third World 1982) /Chinua Achebe, Pt 3/3 / Champagne & Reefer (Muddy Waters)
Beverly Jenai: Do Cowboys Dance? / That Which Binds / The Painting My Friend Yictove / Bevjenai Obama Order Page / The Crossings
Kalamu ya Salaam: in the hot house of black poetry another furious flowering — Part I / Part II / Part III / Part IV / What Is Black Poetry
Response to Criticism of Fellow Ministers
The Journal of Pan African Studies
Black Arts Movement Poetry Issue
Edited by Marvin X
Emmett Till Case / Confessions of the Killers / Racism Republican Style It Ain’t About Race Sitting ducks at the superdome
The Black Arts Movement Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s By James Edward Smethurst / ChickenBones Black Arts and Black Power Figures
37 Poems by Lasana Sekou taught at US university Salt Reaper Poems from the Flats Tortured Fragments Haiti 200 Lasana Sekou in Oxford Poetry Book Skin Poems The Salt Reaper Visit & Fellowship II Sekou Knighted Sekou Writes with “Erotic Power”
Books By Puerto Rican Poet/Writer, Alberto O. Cappas
Doña Julia and Other Selected Poems / Never Too Late to Make a U-Turn Lessons for Myself
Kwame Ture defines Pan-Africanism (1 of 2) / Kwame Ture defines Pan-Africanism (2 of 2) / Debate James Baldwin and Malcolm X / African Hair and Its Significance
Beverly Jenai: Do Cowboys Dance? That Which Binds The Painting My Friend Yictove / Jean-Michel Basquiat : The Radiant Child
How the U.S. Impoverished Haiti (Jean Damu) / Also Poems on Haiti by Marvin X, Ayodele Nzinga, and Dr. Rose Ure Mezu
Jean Saint-Vil of Canada Haiti Action is interviewed by Pat Van Horne / New Orlean’s Heart is in Haiti
No, Mister! You Cannot Share My Pain! (John Maxwell) / The hate and the quake (Sir Hilary Beckles)
Climbing Malcolm’s Ladder /The Black Religious Crisis / A Theology of Obligation & Liberation /
Pass the Mic Tour / Responses to Pass the Mic
How the Riots Might Have Turned Out
Short Story by Sam Greenlee
Be-Bop Man/Be-Bop Woman / When Desoree Danced / Ammunition: Poetry and Other Raps / Snake in the Garden of Eden
Fanon: A Novel by John Edgar Wideman / The Wretched of the Earth / We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For / Alain L. Locke: The Biography of a Philosopher
The Omni-Americans / An Unmistakable Shade of Red & The Obama Chronicles / Our Women Keep Our Skies From Falling / Black Fire: An Anthology
The Intersection of Beauty and Crime
Poems by Jawanza Phoenix
Macy GrayI Try / Macy GrayShe Ain’t Right For You / Macy GrayWhen I See You / Macy GraySweet Baby
Rudy’s Place : Sussex County: A Tale of Three Centuries Public Education in Sussex County in Black and White History of Jerusalem Baptist Church
The Big Boys / Industrial Me / Steadman Graham’s Steps to Success
When Poets Grow in FactoriesBy Afaa Michael Weaver
How Do We Love Thee? Let Us Count the Ways
By Afaa Michael Weaver
New Work by Imamu Amiri Baraka (Black World, May 1973))
Mary E. Weems Table / 4 Closure Poems / Mary Weems on YouTube / Nomination / Marvin X, Essays on Education (e-Book)
I Want Things, Remember Me, The art of seeing the blessings
By Ayodele Nzinga
Ayodele Nzinga Directs Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson
Privatizing Education: The Neoliberal Project / Timbuktu Educational Foundation / Timbuktu: Recapturing the Wisdom and History of a Region
A. Rita Gaines Reviews Kamau Daáood’s
Tracy Chapman: Baby Can I Hold You Tonight / Talkin bout a revolution / Give me one reason / Crossroad / New Beginning
Dr. King Said It: I’m Black and I’m Proud! /Reparations, Queen Mother Moore / Stokely CarmichaelWe Ain’t Goin’
Let Loose on the World Celebrating Amiri Baraka at 75
Edited by Karen D. Taylor and Louis Reyes Rivera
intro by Mumia Abu Jamal
Terry Gross Interviews Natasha Trethewey
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet on Katrinas Aftermath
Goodbye, White Friends! White People Aren’t into Black People Anymore (Cecil Brown) / Poems from Ten Years of Feelings (Santos Vargas)
Turf Dancing in the Rain / WordSlanger@Black World Theater / Staceyann ChinMy First Period / Nigerian Yoruba Movie by Funke Akindele
A Tribute to Lucille Clifton (1936 – 2010)
Poet Lucille Clifton was a mentor, friend, and teacher to scores of writers in Maryland and around the country. Clifton served as Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland and was Distinguished Professor of Humanities at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. She received the National Book Award for her poetry collection, Blessing the Boats (2000). Clifton wrote more than 16 books for children. She served as trustee of the Enoch Pratt Free Library from 1975 to 1984.Join us for this celebration of the life of Lucille Clifton. Poets from Baltimore and around the state will raise their voices to honor the memory of Clifton’s life and works. We invite you to bring your favorite Lucille Clifton poem to share. Schedule: (click on the location to see map) Central Library Thursday, Jun 24, 2010 (6:30 p.m.) PrattLibrary
Kam Hei Tsuei: Hurricane Katrina: Did the Chinese Help / Chinatown Blues / Minna Tsuei Poems
Fela KutiTeacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense / Fela KutiU Be Thief / Fela Kuti in Concert / Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 Zombie / Fela KutiShakara
Mingus/Mingus: Two Memoirs / Jazz Idiom: Blueprints, Still and Frames
ChickenBones Black Arts and Black Power Figures (Compiled by Rudolph Lewis)
(compulsion strikes the witness)
Kelley, Everett, Dove, Madhubuti Win Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardsBy Calvin ReidNov 16, 2010The nonfiction award was presented to Robin D.G. Kelley for Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press) and the fiction prize was presented to Percival Everett for his novel I am Not Sidney Poitier (Graywolf Press). For the first time in the history of the awards, there were two winners for poetry: Haki Madhubuti for Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 19662009 (Third World Press) and Rita Dove for Sonata Mulattica (W.W. Norton).
Winners receive a statue and a cash prize. This years event also celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation, founded in 1990 by novelist Marita Golden and bibliophile Clyde McElvene as a resource center for writers, readers and supporters of African American literature.PublishersWeekly
Miles Davis: Miles Ahead / Milestones / Kind of Blue / Freddie Freeloader / All Blues / Walkin’ / Miles Davis et John Coltrane – So what
The Passing of Poet
(December 14, 1940April 2, 2010)
Fela KutiTeacher Don’t Teach Me Nonsense / Fela KutiU Be Thief / Fela Kuti in Concert / Fela Kuti & Afrika 70 Zombie / Fela KutiShakara
Tracy Chapman: Baby Can I Hold You Tonight / Talkin bout a revolution / Give me one reason / Crossroad / New Beginning
Creative Writing at Dillard / Dillard Faculty Focus / English Faculty Focus Dillard / Dillard Writing Successes / Poems: Red Beans and Ricely Yours
An Unmistakable Shade of Red & The Obama Chronicles (Mary E. Weems) / 4 Closure Poems Mary Weems on YouTube / Nomination /
For Katie Latimore November 7, 1900 to February 2, 2010
Poem by Glenis Redmond
Mutabaruka: Live 1984 / I Am The Man / Johnny Drughead 198X / Butta Pan Kulcha / Whey Mi Belang /
Mutabaruka: Reggae Sunsplash-1982 / it no good(to stay in a white man country too long /dispel the lie / Spirituality / Blacks In Amerika
The Flowering Rock, Poems by Eric Merton Roach
Kam Williams Interviews Colin Roach
We keep coming back and coming back & Other Poems by Kahlil Koromantee / Poetry Foundation
The N Word, Go Tell Michele, and other Books
By Rudolph Lewis
Black Boys and Burning Midnight Oil / Dust Bowls and Wading Pools
By Beverly Fields Burnette
By Marvin X
Marvin X and Fresno State University
Love One Another / The Ancestors Are Not Really Dead / Into His Arms / On Learning of Walter Rodney’s Death & Other Poems
Ralph Nader on Israel-Palestine, Barack Obama, John McCain
By Kalb Faouly Attimn Tshamba
Some Religious Pimps For Men Only Struggle Continues
Why South Sudan Wants Obama to Lose White House Bid (Mulumba) / Obama and the Israeli Lobby (Uri Avnery)
Obama Victory Creates African Excitement / Obama Declares Victory / An Obama Love Story / Meditation for Obama / Obama 2008 Table
whose really blues (Q. R. Hand Jr.)
Interview with Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd Author of Loving Black Women
Remembering Chinwe History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry Waiting for You My Beautiful Wife Journey to the Motherland
By Nnedi Okorafor
Well-known for young adult novels (The Shadow Speaks; Zahrah the Windseeker), Okorafor sets this emotionally fraught tale in post apocalyptic Saharan Africa. The young sorceress Onyesonwuwhose name means Who fears death?was born Ewu, bearing a mixture of her mother’s features and those of the man who raped her mother and left her for dead in the desert. As Onyesonwu grows into her powers, it becomes clear that her fate is mingled with the fate of her people, the oppressed Okeke, and that to achieve her destiny, she must die. Okorafor examines a host of evils in her chillingly realistic talegender and racial inequality share top billing, along with female genital mutilation and complacency in the face of destructive traditionand winds these disparate concepts together into a fantastical, magical blend of grand storytelling
Vocal Landscape Poems by Paul Tyler Drawings by Patricia Brown
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
A Letter of Discovery by Sandra L. West
We Are A Dancing People Leslie Garland Bolling Wendy Stand Up with Your Proud Hair! Coming of Age in 1960s Newark
Beltway Poetry Quarterly inaugurates National Poetry Month with a new issue devoted to authors who have recently published their first, full-length, single-author books. Five authors are featured, all with notable books, including A.B. Spellman, author of Things I Must Have Known 162 pp. Coffee House Press 2008. Spellman is a founding member of the Black Arts Movement and one of the fathers of modern jazz criticism. A.B. Spellman Interview
A Poem by Ayodele Nginga
1994 Furious Flower Conference / EtanaRoots / EtanaWrong Address / EtanaThe Strong One / EtanaAugust Town / EtanaDont Forget
Psychedelic Literature is pleased to announce that the Summer 2010 issue of Black Magnolias Literary Journal is now available. This issue features essays by Dr. Agnieszka Lobodziec (University of Zielona/Poland), Carl Schinasi (Miles College), and Shelia Bonner (Belhaven University), poetry by Rudolph Lewis (Editor of ChickenBones: A Journal) and Nathan Harper aka Urban Raw (Jackson State/Mississippi State) and fiction by Tony Robles (author of two children’s book and editor of POOR Magazine) and Katrina Byrd (Playwright in Residence for The Center Players). To purchase a copy or view the complete table of contents and cover art, go to Psychedelic Literature.com/Black Magnolias
Black Magnolias Literary Journal is a quarterly that uses poetry, fiction, and prose to examine and celebrate the social, political, and aesthetic accomplishments of African Americans with an emphasis on Afro-Mississippians and Afro-Southerners. We welcome pieces on a variety of African American and Afro-Southern culture, including history, politics, education, incidents/events, social life, and literature. All submissions are to be made by e-mail as a Word attachment to psychedeliclit@bellsouth.net . Each issue costs $12.00, and a years subscription is $40.00.
Sonnets in Memory of Nathaniel Turner
Poet & Prophet of Southampton
By Rudolph Lewis
Nathaniel Turner TimeLine 1831 Confessions Nathaniel of Southampton or Balaams Ass / Grant Creates Nat Turner Tour / Sonnets for Larry Neala
Richard Wright Print Resources / China II Report (June 4-19, 2010) / Open Note to President Barack Obama // Searching for the Half Sign (O. R. Dathorne)
Claire Carew files: The Artist as Social Activist From Birmingham Alabama to Qana Lebanon It Ain’t About Race Healing Wisdom of Mexico
Sitting ducks at the superdome Claire Carew: Giving Voice Through Art
Mourning Katrina: A Poetic Response to Tragedy . . .
is about devastation and mourning, about the failure of humanity to act humanely, about the politics of poverty and race, but it is also about hope and healing. The poets give voice to the rainbow that comes after the storm and the revival of spirit that comes out of the depths of tested faith. All of them share a willingness to see beyond their sorrow to reinvent the spirit of “Laissez les bon temps rouler!” Though human suffering shaped the beginning of this project, the result of it is a morning of hope and inspiration
ChickenBones: A Journal has invaded my Sunday School class.
Last week, I took a copy of the essay, The Black Church Is Dead, from ChickenBones, to class at Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, NJ. Brother Warren read it out loud, and we all discussed it. We are members of a progressive black church, but we weren’t always. We have had other experiences, and some not always so positive/ pleasant/nurturing. Cornel Westmy Cousin Westcalls the author of The Black Church Is Dead one of the finest new public intellectuals on the horizon, and he most certainly is, Eddie Glaude, I hope I have the spelling of his name. I just wanted you to know that ChickenBones continues to provide sustenance for constituents far and wide. Its impact upon the black community is most definite.Sandra L. West
Ron Artest Aint the Problem! People Did Not Have to Die Another Stolen Election? The Watts Rebellion Protest to Stop Police Brutality
(for Staceyann in the space/time continuum)
Creative Writing at Dillard / Dillard Faculty Focus / English Faculty Focus Dillard / Dillard Writing Successes / Poems: Red Beans and Ricely Yours
How US Energy Policy Got MilitarizedThe association between “energy security” (as it’s now termed) and “national security” was established long ago. President Franklin D. Roosevelt first forged this association way back in 1945, when he pledged to protect the Saudi Arabian royal family in return for privileged American access to Saudi oil. The relationship was given formal expression in 1980, when President Jimmy Carter told Congress that maintaining the uninterrupted flow of Persian Gulf oil was a “vital interest” of the United States, and attempts by hostile nations to cut that flow would be countered “by any means necessary, including military force.” To implement this “doctrine,” Carter ordered the creation of a Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force, specifically earmarked for combat operations in the Persian Gulf area. President Ronald Reagan later turned that force into a full-scale regional combat organization, the U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM. Every president since Reagan has added to CENTCOM’s responsibilities, endowing it with additional bases, fleets, air squadrons, and other assets. As the country has, more recently, come to rely on oil from the Caspian Sea basin and Africa, U.S. military capabilities are being beefed up in those areas as well. Alternet
Communism as Russian Imperialism (Nicholas Berdyaev) / Aboard the African Star / Dublin Quarterly
Niyi Juliad: Osundare’s Universe of Burdens The Poet’s Pen & Other Poems
Artichoke Pickle Passion: A Sonnet
By Beverly Fields Burnette
Search for Black Men: Vietnam Post-Mortem Searching for my Great Grandmother at Stonewall Voices of the Culture
Saloy Files: Red Beans and Ricely Yours (2005)
WE: A Poem For Frank Fitch For Daddy V Mother with Me on Canal Street A Life Won with Blood & Tears
Mona Lisa Saloy Winner of the PEN Oakland National Literary Award Trouble in Paradise (Mona Lisa Saloy) / Red Beans and Ricely Yours — Reviews
Mona Lisa Saloy / Mona Lisa, Lakeside and the N-Word / Red Beans and Ricely Yours — Reviews
Asili Ya Nadhiri and how do you warm / Duh Measur’n Rod / Mama / Corners
Attending The Ninth National Black Writers Conference
A Report by Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd
Report on Third Annual African-American Spoken Word Festival / Larry Uklai Johnson Redd Table
(poem) /
The Art of Tom Dent: Early Evidence (essay)
for nia long / Instructions for Your New Osiris / The Cruelty of Age in Lorenzo Thomas’ Tirade
Askia on Pan Africanism / Dawnsong! / Osirian Rhapsody: A Myth
Rudy Interviews Askia Touré Part 1 Part 2
Three for O in Light and Shadow
Askia M. Touré Askia on Pan Africanism / Black Arts and Black Power Figures / Askia Toure’ Talks To Konch / Black Arts Movement /
Black Arts and Cultural Revolution (Askia M. Touré) / Dingane Joe Goncalves / Journal of Black Poetry Festival
9/11 (Are We Flying the Same Flag Now?)
By James Goodwyn
Fourth World Poems: For Stan Tookie Williams 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 Mosquitoes Fly Out My Head
The Fourth World and the Marxists Letters from Young Activists Lessons from France Paris Is Burning “The Pyres of Autumn” Responses to Jean Baudrillard Geraldine Robinson remembers The Family of Cow Tom :The Connection of Africans & the Civilized Tribes
5 Reviews by 5 Strong Black Women
Report to African Union Summit Conversations of Africa Larry Uklai Johnson Redd Table
Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd Listen to Conversations of Africa by following this link: http://www.conversationsofafrica.asmnetwork.net/ You are invited to listen to this and join in the conversation and make it a discussion by calling in and participating at 347-215-7831! Remember this segment will begin at 8 PM Pacific Standard Time! Conversations of Africa / Attending The Ninth National Black Writers Conference / Larry Uklai Johnson Redd Table
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By Anastacia (Stacey) Tolbert
First Tour of Duty and Other Poems
By Anastacia (Stacey) Tolbert
Baring My Soul / Kool Aid / Elvis at the dinner party / Breaking Down / Anatacia’s Lament / Baring My Soul / Fantasy Island / Sonia’s Song / What’s Goin On
Grace Boggs: The Worst and Best of Times Crime Among Our People The Dropout Challenge Give Detroit Schools a Fresh Start Food Future Past Going Beyond Black and White A Thoughtful Conversation about Religion
Files for Yictove On the Passing of Malvina Turk American Money Blue Print (Poems) Jammin Mr Politician My Life Story Tropical Love
African Slave Castle (video)
A Forum on the Role of the Poet and Poetry
Poem by Amin Sharif
The Free Southern Theatre Institute
a Venue for Truth-Telling
Cornel West Moves to Princeton West Cites Reason For Quitting Cornel West: An Editorial Pass the Mic Kam Williams Interviews Cornel West
Beverly Jenai: Do Cowboys Dance? That Which Binds The Painting My Friend Yictove / Jean-Michel Basquiat : The Radiant Child
Did you know . . .
April is National Poetry Month
We highlight Dudley Randall and Audre Lorde
360° A Revolution of Black Poets Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam with Kwame Alexander
Reginald Lockett in Memory and Tribute
to Oaklands Poet and Professor
Some Gangster Pain By Gillian Conoley
Some Gangster Pain Slave Quarter Suddenly the Graves Goat Without Horns / Global News:PoliticsLiterature & the Arts
By Maurine Otor
Poems of Love and Pain (Maurine Otor) / Human Rights and Women’s Rights
Love Poems by Amendrius Elizabeth McRae
Queen Africa: A Poem in Two Parts
By Betty Wamalwa Muragori
Poems on Kenyan Political Violence by Sitawa Namwalie
Alberto O. Cappas, Poet/Writer Never Too Late to Make a U-Turn An Educational Pledge and 15 Questions to Self-Development
Poems: Doña Julia Review Cappas Bio Nubian Voices Doña Julia Her Borinquen Haiti in Puerto Rico My Home
By Raymond Brookter
The Healing Power of Words / Global News:PoliticsLiterature & the Arts
Interview with Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd Author of Loving Black Women
Remembering Chinwe History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry Waiting for You My Beautiful Wife Journey to the Motherland
(a concave allusion to Amiri Barakas Somebody Blew Up America)
By Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
Blue Voices for the Fourth of July / Somebody Blew Up America Making Peace with the Loss of Things
Slo Dance Reviews Celebrating the Release Acknowledgements Slo Dance Table Slo Dance Introduction A Real Long Look The Protector Mobutu and Zaire
Letter to a Relative: Poem for Leonard Peltier
By Ayodele Nzinga
Global News: PoliticsLiterature & the Arts
Tom Dent Speaks Tom Dent Bio My Father Is Dead Jessie Covington Dent When I Do That Thing
By Mary Weems
On Almost Meeting Alice Walker Five Poems News at Noon Argo Starch Mary E. Weems Table
Man of FireMan of Passion by C.P. Gause, PhD / Poems by Andrea Barnwell To Myself: Lists The Sudan January Again Rain Poem
By Craig A. Garner
Poems, Interviews, & a Story by Jane Musoke-Nteyafas: Meet Jay Lou Ava Where Is the Love of All Things African? WE BE BLACK PEOPLE
REMEMBER: CHEIKH ANTA DIOP AFRO-DISIAC FORBIDDEN FRUIT Enough with the Poisonous Lyrics Interview with Rudolph Lewis
Malcolm Shine & the Titanic Poem for Our Fathers Poem for Our Mothers
By Professor ARTURO
Global News: PoliticsLiterature & the Arts / Poem for Our Mothers (Video)
The Wondrous Wanda Coleman Poems & Stories She Writes
Written by daughter, Chie Lunn
Before Becoming Historical / Yictove (Eugene Turk) made his transition suddenly Saturday evening, July 28th 2007
Sundiata MemorialsA special Memorial for Sekou Sundiata takes place on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 (his birth date), at Tishman Auditorium, New School University, 66 West 12th Street, exactly from 6pm to 8pm, with poets, musicians, family and friends. . . . African Voices africanvoices@aol.com is looking for poems and short comments from friends and fellow artists who were influenced and inspired by Sekou Sundiata. Publisher Carolyn Butts and Editor Layding Kaliba are looking to publish as many dedications to him as possible; therefore, no submission should be longer than 500 words. African Voices also wants to include photographs to accompany the dedications All submissions should be sent to africanvoices@aol.com no later than midnight, August 20, 2007, in order to include materials gathered in the very next issue. Interested parties may submit materials via email and/or call African Voices at 212.865.2982.
Gifted Poet Sekou Sundiata (August 22, 1948 — July 18, 2007) Obituary by Louis Reyes Rivera
Loneliness 40 Acres in a prison Stand By Me
Poems/Lyrics by Crystal Cartier
Check out Crystal’s rousing Stand by Me video and her delightful Hello World video
The Afro-Blues Tradition: Glorious Child of The Africans By Kwame A F Copeland
By Tony Medina
I and I Bob Marley / Love to Langston / Christmas Makes Me Think / DeShawn Days / Committed to Breathing
The Different Flavors of Words By Claudia Saul
for Iya Barbara Ann Teer (1937-2008)
By Olabisi Askia Toure
Tavis Smiley Questions Minister Louis Farrakhan on President Barack Obama: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / “The Black Agenda is the American Agenda.”
By Linda Mayfield-Hayes
Po-It Brotha Soul Untitled Himacy Lickwid Langwij (A Musical CD)
We Are A Dancing People / Leslie Garland Bolling / Wendy Stand Up with Your Proud Hair! / Badge of Honor: Coming of Age
Maya Angelou at Million Man March / 1 in 2 Million / Cries of a Ghetto Child / The Chosen One
My Grandma Rocks the Cradle and Rules the World
& Other Poems by Ellen Dunbar
Writings by Ng’ethe Githinji I Am Not Superman #1 Twenty Short Stories of Love
Global News:PoliticsLiterature & the Arts
37 Poems by Lasana Sekou taught at US university
Poet, Activist, Sonia Sanchez Reading Toni Cade Bambara / Kalamu ya Salaam Tribute to Toni Cade Bambara
“I like your Christ but I don’t like your Christians, your Christians are so unlike your Christ”Gandhi
The Autobiography of Medgar Evers A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches 2006
By Myrlie Evers-Williams and Manning Marable / Bob DylanOnly a pawn in their game (video) /The Ballad of Medgar Evers SNCC Freedom Singers
Second2Last Table — a generation Scene/Seen Money The 10 Step Program Truth B Conversation With Myself Crown Legion Change
By Mackie Blanton
After Katrina (An Intro) Chapter I (Neighbors and Invaders) Chapter 2 ( Earthquakes and Baklava)
Chapter 3 (The Lens in Platos Eye) Malcolms Landing
Mackie Blanton: Malcolms Landing: After Katrina Chapter I (Neighbors and Invaders) Chapter 2 ( Earthquakes and Baklava) Chapter 3 (The Lens in Platos Eye)
Neighbors and Invaders Eh, La Bas, Cherie! (letter) Beers and Transformation Ode #95 The Struggle Ode
By Akoli Penoukou
Laura Ivers —What’s For Supper The Proliferation of a Lie NEGLECT The Price of Ignorance Textbook Victimization A Letter To Langston Hughes
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Searching for my Great Grandmother at Stonewall
(For my great grandmother Mary Lewis Farrar)
By Beverly Fields Burnette
Voices of the Culture Search for Black Men: Vietnam Post-Mortem
Paula M. Patton-Ross — Miss La Reba Potato’s Salad Tell Me Where AfterGlow
By Arif Ay
Poems Translated by Mevlut Ceylan
Carnations Guerrilla Here Looking at Istanbul Ostlers & Doomsday Parting Poems of Destruction RAMP REQUIEM
Say it Loud: Poems about James Brown. Edited by: Mary E. Weems, and Thomas Sayers Ellis. We grew up on James Browns hit me! When he danced every young Black man wanted to move, groove and look like him. Mr. Brown wasnt called the hardest workingman in show business because he wasnt. Experiencing a James Brown show was like getting your favorite soul food twice, plus desert. His songs, like black power fists you could be proud of and move to at the same time. When Mr. Brown sang make it funky we sweated even in the wintertime. Losing him was like losing somebody in our family. This is a shout out for poems about the impact James Brown had on our lives. Poems that will help people remember, honor, and celebrate his legacy. Dont be left in a cold sweat, send us your old and new James Brown poems today.Submission Guidelines: 3-5 Unpublished and/or published poems with acknowledgement included. No longer than 73 lines Deadline: December 31, 2007 (Receipt not postmark) Send hard copies along with a Word Document and short bio on a CD to: Dr. Mary E. Weems / English Department / John Carroll University / 20700 North Park Blvd. / University Hts., Ohio 44118 / Send via e-mail attachment (Word Documents Only) to: mweems45@sbcglobal.net, and tse@case.edu
A sudden thought for you & Other Poems
By Paul McIntosh
Kalamu ya Salaam Reports: Post-Katrina New Orleans
I Love You It’s Hard I’m Crazy Cracking Up Stephanie Take Deep Breaths Spirits in the Dark I Am Ashamed of Myself
Breath of Life The Storyteller of New Orleans by Elizabeth D. / LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE: The Neo-Griot New Orleans Project
Reconstruction of a Poet: The Call: Ideology or Poetry? My Life Is the Blues Producing & Recording Poetry A Black Poetics African-American Language
What Is Life: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self (Kalamu ya Salaam)
Conversations with Kind Friends / Dollar Day–Katrina Klap (Audio-Video) / Katrina New Orleans Flood Index / Gorge Bush Doesn’t Care
People of Color Less Likely to Own Cars Katrina-TimeLine Chuck Siler Response to Katrina / A Prayer for Our Enemies (Fenton Johnson)
By Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani
My Soul is anchored: poems from the mourning Katrina national writing project — now on sale
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Kamau Daáood — DANCING IN A BOOKS ARMS Zillion Tambourines The Language of Saxophones Los Angeles
When Music is a Poet’s Tool: Tame turmoil. Transform all the bile-flavored anger and anxiety into words. Vent. Review the outburst to discover the pattern the turmoil never told you it had. Reshape the pattern into stanzas or lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narratives. Polish. Repolish. Publish. There are times when poems must respond to natural disasters and subsequent pandemics to the reflux acid of war, racism, genocide. At those times, it is only normal for poets to let the turmoil roll. If you want a poem rather than the droppings of a vatic pigeon, you must dance in a music that takes you to the other side of natural disaster and national tragedy. Jerry Ward, Jr., “The Katrina Papers,” DrumVoices, Spring-Summer-Fall 2006
Speak the Truth to the People by Mari Evans
We’re in the Same Boat Brother by Huddie Ledbetter
Poems by Cheryl W. Robinson — Weather It Is / WE / River of Living Waters
Saloy Files: Red Beans and Ricely Yours (2005)
WE: A Poem For Frank Fitch For Daddy V Mother with Me on Canal Street A Life Won with Blood & Tears
How We Sleep on the Nights We Don’t Make Love
By E. Ethelbert Miller
It Must Be Lester Young New York: St. Vincent’s Hospital A Poem for Richard Omar, Books, and Me
In Shadows There Are Men All that could go wrong Fathering Words Galbus on Ethelbert
Congratulations to E. Ethelbert Miller— Poets & Writers is thrilled to announce that the three recipients of its 2007 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award are E. Ethelbert Miller, Francine Prose, and Susan Shreve. Established in 1996, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, which is presented at P&W’s annual dinner, recognizes authors who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community. Honorees are nominated by a committee composed of past winners, other prominent writers, and the Board of Directors of Poets & Writers. A Poem for Richard It Must Be Lester Young New York: St. Vincent’s Hospital
Creative Writing at Dillard / Dillard Faculty Focus / English Faculty Focus Dillard / Dillard Writing Successes / Poems: Red Beans and Ricely Yours
Mackie Blanton: Malcolms Landing: After Katrina Chapter I (Neighbors and Invaders) Chapter 2 ( Earthquakes and Baklava) Chapter 3 (The Lens in Platos Eye)
Neighbors and Invaders Eh, La Bas, Cherie! (letter) Beers and Transformation Ode #95 The Struggle Ode
ChickenBones Poetry Book for 2006
Poems by Caroline Maun
Reviewed by Rudolph Lewis
Katrina Faceless / The Red Rat Snake / Colors / Poems from Ten Years of Feelings (Santos Vargas)
Saloy Files: Red Beans and Ricely Yours (2005)
For Frank Fitch For Daddy V Mother with Me on Canal Street A Life Won with Blood & Tears
Poems by Godspower Oboido: MONSTERS WHAT’S HAPPENING TO MAMA’S LAND
Interview with Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd
Author of Loving Black Women
By Rudolph Lewis
History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry Black Love/ Spoken Word Poetry Tour
Remembering Chinwe History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry Waiting for You My Beautiful Wife Journey to the Motherland
Poems by Glenis Redmond
Lifting Mama’s Magic She Mango
Poems by Christopher Barnes All Ear Also Ran An Ignoble Liberty Antiseptic For A Foot-Stomped Ego Appetites As Harry Puts The Bomb Under The Audi
Hail to the Chief & Other Poems by Richard Lawson
View From Crook Peak Tsunami – Villanelle A Wood in Somerset, Iraq Leaves on the lawn The Shed
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Kwame Dawes: Wisteria, Twilight Songs from the Swamp Country Tornado Child Black Funk Vengeance
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Poems, Essays, Reports, etc.
Katrina by Caroline Maun There’s Another New Orleans:by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Kalamu ya Salaam The Call: Ideology or Poetry? My Life Is the Blues Producing & Recording Poetry A Black Poetics African-American Language
Poems by Yictove
That Town Grandma Turk Tropical Love
Poems By Jennifer Brown Banks
I Once Loved a Poet . . . The Leather Pants City Living
Poems by Jennifer Brown Banks The Paradox of Racism The Leather Pants CAN A WHITE WOMAN DO THIS? City Living Angry Black Man
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Necromancers of Negritude & Other Thoughts
By Vince Rogers
Legends and Legacies Bad Brains Necromancers of Negritude Griot (for Rudy) Kings of Crunk An Angelic Trio Talk To Me For No Particular Reason
Turkish Legislator Poets
Ziya Gokalp Mehmet Akif Ersoy Yahya Kemal Beyatli Faruk Nafiz Çamlibel Yusuf Ziya Ortac
Kemalettin Kamu Hasan Ali Yucel Necdet Evliyagil Mehmet Atilla Maras Erdem Bayazit
Translated from the Turkish by Mevlut Ceylan
Poems by Mevlut Ceylan Ceylan Index Thresholds An Awkward End & Other Poems The Birth Living Is An Art Pilgrim Survival
Time & Freedom Open Your Arms The Hanging The Appointed Time Bare &The Letter
The Sultan Poets Psalms by Mevlut Ceylan
Ahmed Ali (1910-1994)
Ceylan Index Mevlut Ceylan Interviews Rudy on Poetic Process
Skin Poems by Drisana Deborah Jack Introduction saturday night a poet’s farewell waterpoem 5
The Journey Oceans of Love– Table Books N Review
Poetry, She Wrote I: Oh Magnify Him
By Dee Freeman
To Us From Us Love in the Flesh Who Am I? Ain’t I Somebody Too I Weep
Minna Tsuei Poems Hurricane Katrina: Did the Chinese Help Chinatown Blues
An Anthology of Black Memphis Writers and Artists
Miriam DeCosta-Willis & Fannie Mitchell Delk, Editors
Philip Dotson, Art Editor
Etheridge Knight: He Sees Through Stone Once on a Night in the Delta
We keep coming back and coming back & Other Poems by Kahlil Koromantee
(compulsion strikes the witness)
Poeting, Hustling & the Black Aesthetic
He Sees Through Stone Once on a Night in the Delta
Check out Flowers’ Meditations on the Longgame, and his — Rootsblog: A Cyberhoodoo Webspace
On Richard Wright and Our Contemporary Situation
250 years of African-American Poetry
By Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
The Art of Tom Dent: Early Evidence (essay) After the Hurricanes
(poem)
NOLA SPEAKS Portrait of a Suicide/Death in Yellow Flooding After the Hurricanes
(poem)
Trouble the Water (book)
By Joe Williams III
(for the radical writers in New Orleans)
By Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
New Orleans Poet
Booker: Black Night Keep on Falling
Ellis Marsalis on Wednesday at Snug Harbor
Miss Marva Wright Turbinton: The African Cowboy at Charlie B’s
Walter Washington Signed Poem Miles
Night Train to Melbourne Billie Pierce Jazzmen Waiting
At the French Market Young Men in Wheel Chairs
French Quarter Poems — Introduction
Poetry Forum Fellowship Award Literature a la Russe
photo credit: Phyllis Parun
Sitting ducks at the superdome It Ain’t About Race
Poems by Claire Carew
Katrina New Orleans Flood Index
Kam Hei Tsuei: Hurricane Katrina: Did the Chinese Help / Chinatown Blues / Minna Tsuei Poems
By Bro. Yao
hell poem #2 clouds they make a wall against armageddon Reggie with the Box Top guitar
Save Me from All These Pimps by Esther Iverem / SeeingBlack.Com Editor and Film Critic / Literature & Arts
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African Slave Castle (video)
A Forum on the Role of the Poet and Poetry
Poem by Amin Sharif
The Free Southern Theatre Institute
a Venue for Truth-Telling
Kalamu ya Salaam : Is A Sonnet More Than “Fourteen Lines”?
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Art for Life: My Story, My Song / Guarding the Flame of Life: The Funeral of Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr.
Fishbone & Blues Mystic Mam-A-Jama
Poems by Dorothy Marie Rice
37 Poems by Lasana Sekou taught at US university Salt Reaper Poems from the Flats Tortured Fragments Haiti 200 Lasana Sekou in Oxford Poetry Book Skin Poems The Salt Reaper Visit & Fellowship II Sekou Knighted Sekou Writes with “Erotic Power”
The Passing of a New Orleans Artist
By Rudolph Lewis & Others
A memorial service will be held Dec. 27 / at noon at Breezy’s Place, 2139 Soniat St
Chandra Lewis — Black Man Where Do You Stand On the Wing of a Prayer A Shared Moment Back in Swamp Briars2
Neo-Folklore Beachhead Preachment
Opened a Channel to the Ancestors
Another Soldier Gone Candelight Vigil for Ahmos Zu-Bolton
37 Poems by Lasana Sekou taught at US university
Poems by Ras Baraka
Sample poems #1 #4 There Are Some Black Men
For Tom Dent’s work with young writers, read Kalamu’s Art for Life: My Story, My Song, especially When I Do That Thing
What’s Happening @ Sista’s Place Lest We Forget Killens Scattered Scripture
Inside the River of PoetryBy Louis Reyes RiveraNew York, New York
Filiberto Ojeda Rios Scattered Scripture jorge’s journey Rivera Bio On the Passing of Rich Bartee
The Sultan Poets The Royal Poets of Turkey Translations by Mevlut Ceylan
Driving the Blues Away: Or Dying by Degrees (Rudolph Lewis)
Responses to Driving the Blues Away
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Didn’t He Ramble by Rudolph Lewis / Buddy Bolden in New Orleans
By Van G. Garrett
The Cruelty of Age in Lorenzo Thomas’ Tirade African Folktales & Modern Thought
Nidaa Khoury, Palestinian Poet Signs Agreement with Caribbean Publisher Lasana M. Sekou Haiti 200 Tortured Fragments Visit & Fellowship II Lasana M. Sekou
A poem by Rudolph Lewis
People Get Ready / Sam and Dave by Kalamu ya Salaam
On Almost Meeting Alice Walker A Lie Unravels the World Lies Truth and Unwaged Housework
Commencement Speech at Hampton University (Barack Obama)
The Black Arts Movement Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s By James Edward Smethurst / ChickenBones Black Arts and Black Power Figures
3-D Joy 3,000 Souls Declaration of Independence God’s Pen TESTAMENT
The Importance of Civil Disobedience in Post-Katrina New Orleans By Elizabeth Cook Katrina New Orleans Flood Index
Additional Files
Amin Sharif
A Blues for the Birmingham Four
Arthur R. Flowers
Rootwork By Patricia R. Schroeder
Rootwork and the Prophetic Impulse
Asili Ya Nadhiri
and how do you warm when you alone
Askia Muhammad Toure
Rudy Interviews Askia Touré Part 1 Part 2
Binyavanga Wainaina
Banning Chinua Achebe in Kenya
Kwani? Kenya’s Literary Journal www.kwani.org
Bro. Yao
they make a wall against armageddon
Carolyn Butts
Crystal Cartier
Cynthia McOliver
Poems: Status quo / Being / Self-image / Dreams
DB Cox
Dorothy Riggs McCall
E. Ethelbert Miller
Beltway: An On-Line Poetry Quarterly Edited by Kim Roberts
Fathering Words by Julia A. Galbus
How We Sleep on the Nights We Don’t Make Love (2004)
Memory and Influence: A History of DC Poets
New York: St. Vincent’s Hospital
Etta Mae Ladson
Frederick B. Hudson
When You Told Me You Could Carve
Inventing Africa: New York Times by Milton Allimadi
Jerhretta Dafina Suite
Jerry W. Ward, Jr.
The Acklyn Model Not Sufficient (conversation)
The Art of Tom Dent: Early Evidence (essay)
(poem)
Love Should Deflect Contentment (conversation)
I Couldn’t Find Jesus at the Box Office (The Passion of Christ) John Sankofa
lasana m. sekou
Knighted ny Dutch Queen Beatrix
Kola Boof
A Hymn to Kola Boof by Rudolph Lewis
Interpretation in Small Containers
Turned On About Two Dreaming You
Laura Ivers
Louis Reyes Rivera
(compulsion strikes the witness)
Interview by Rudolph Lewis
Marcus Harris
Poems from Songs in Search of a Voice
Mawelulu Onwuku
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
After All the Flame by Randy Wells
This is What I Tell My Daughter
Po-It
Stacey Tolbert
For Sisters Who Hate Fast Food
What’s Goin On Van G. Garrett
African Folktales Still Influence Modern Thought
Instructions for Your New Osiris
The Cruelty of Age in Lorenzo Thomas’ Tirade
Yvonne Terry
What Consolation Is Christ to Suffering?
#58
black people believe
in god, & i believe in
black people, amen
#87
inspired by womb’s gift
art is the only birth a
male can accomplish
Haiku by Kalamu ya Salaam
–from Nia: Haiku, Sonnets, and Sun Songs (2002)
#1
there’s no night so long
that we can not ride through to
taste tomorrow’s dawn
#7
summer rain showers
fall, in renegade silence
i strip search my soul
#50
i’m desolate as
a wino sucking on some
discarded bottle
#14
today bottled tears
are sold as spring water, its
dog eat everything
#20
your patient water
indelibly sculpted my stone
your touch matured me
#46
you pause on the edge
of me, testing my water
with your toe, please swim
#49
thought i was gone but
my train rumbles in circles
each station is you
#79
i enter your church
you receive my offerings
our screaming choirs merge
#100
what we know limits
us, wisdom loves everything
not yet understood
Nia: Haiku, Sonnets, Sun Songs
Feminism, Black Erotica & Revolutionary Love
Responses to Feminism, Black Erotica
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