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Post-Racial America
When I was creating my “About” page for this blog, I had to really think about whether to mention my age (I’m 49) and my race. My ultimate conclusion is that the most important thing about me is that I...
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Hometown Glory: The 2010 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival
The magnitude of having attended the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in my hometown of Newark at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) this past weekend is almost too overwhelming to talk...
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Bein Colored
This past weekend, I went to see the movie, “For Colored Girls,” based on the 1975 play for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf written by poet Ntozake Shange. The play...
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Freedom Ringing
The day Martin Luther King was assassinated was the first time I had ever heard his name. On April 4, 1968, I was just shy of eight years old, and it was another in a series of confusing events that...
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The Language of Childhood
The writing style which is most natural for you is bound to echo the speech you heard when a child. – Kurt Vonnegut What speech patterns did you grow up with as a child? My mother’s family migrated...
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Memorialized
I talked about my grandmother’s way of talking in the last post, but how did she influence me as a writer? Through my grandmother, I learned how to appreciate individuality as shown through the way...
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Life Without Limits: Is That Possible?
In my last post I said that I no longer want to limit the possibilities in my life or box myself in through labels, such as wife. mother, or what have you. However, one of the comments to that post...
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Am I a Black Poet?
As I reflect on Martin Luther King, Jr’s’ birthday today, I think about the notion of a postracial America, which I believe is the same thing Dr. King talked about in his “I have a dream” speech–a...
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Post-Racialism in a World of Niggers and Crackers
I continue to be intrigued by this idea of post racialism and am still trying to figure out exactly what that looks like. Some people are afraid, and rightly so, that post-racialism means that we all...
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