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The Blues Cry For A Revolution
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A Walk Through Brooklyn
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The Tishman Review July 2017
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In The Moment
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My Installed Poem Commemorating The Previously Enslaved.
“RXR builds a luxury apartment on top of unmarked graves” could have easily been a headline on a Westchester paper.
About 16 months ago, I submitted a proposal to write a commemorative poem. I was a lil’ skeptical since every other submission I applied for required the poem to go with the application. But this one was different. It was from a construction company. The task was to create a poem rec
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| Tell My Mother I Gone To Cuba: Stories of Early Twentieth-Century Migration From Barbados by Sharon Milagro was thought provoking yet dry. Thought provoking in that I was unaware of the depth Barbadians carved out lives through the generations in Cub ...more | |
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| How We Do It: Black Writers On Craft, Practice, and Skill, edited by Jericho Brown, is an excellent book on black craft. It contains 32 different essays (including a Jericho Brown in Conversation with Michael Dumanis and An Interview with Barry Jenki ...more | |
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| I didn't know what to expect when I picked up Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall. Surprisingly, it was just what I needed. A story about a 1st-generation Bajan-American growing up in Brooklyn, New York, during the 1940s. One of my favorite asp ...more | |
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“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
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“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”
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