Tag: literary

I have theme songs; they change fairly frequently and have run the range from Beautiful by Bobby Brown and Damian Marley to Carl Carlton's Bad Mamma Jamma. Less often, I’ve had theme poems.  But for a few good years, this was one of them. (Poem follows after the jump). Instructions to the Double Tess Gallagher [...]

I was on line to be a Kappa Sweetheart.  Through the early 90s, Black fraternities would often have auxiliary organizations for young women who had not yet earned enough credit hours to pledge a sorority.  The auxiliary was really a social network of freshmen, sometimes sophomores, that was supposed to support the members of the [...]

I really never had a favorite poet. What I’ve found in individual poems, a few collections, and sometimes (though rarely) in poets has usually been fleeting, a weapon I discover in the heat of the fight, use for the battle, and discard once my demons have been fought and retreat. What follows this month—it’s National [...]

Oh shiznit!  Dead white men no longer have the monopoly on poetry publishing! Does that mean a sista can get published now?  Perhaps not.  Well, unless she can get-it, get-it with one of her old MFA professors... Check out this article from Sunday's edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education about who and what is [...]