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Dec.31.2012 The Blues comes to a triumphant end.... Greetings Family, The “Blues” was conceived out of love and a want for better understanding of who we are as Black Americans. Discovering the connection between our African heritage and our American upbringing is one of the single greatest journeys that I will continue on throughout my...	Jul.16.2012 A hand of bananas I was over in Berkeley yesterday evening, and someone was talking about collective nouns, a propos of a "swarm of gulls" in a poem. It's a murder of crows, he said, but what are gulls, and nobody could answer. A murder of crows! My bedtime reading is Woolf's Waves. I reread all the italicized...
May.03.2012 Sometimes, Is it Just a Black Thing??? I had someone very well respected in publishing take a look at my self-published novel: My Name is Butterfly. The person gave her honest review of the story and some of what she said I've heard from other people in the industry who have read my previous books as well as every day...	Sep.02.2010 Article on Granta I've just had a small travel piece published in Granta's online edition. It starts as follows: The last time I flew alone was during the literary festival season of 2009, when I had to go from Guernsey to Glasgow – complete with a criminally early start – in time for a reading at the Wigtown...
Mar.10.2010 Savannah Artists Combine Creative Resources to Assist Haiti Demonstrating their ability to make meaningful practical contributions to the world community, some thirty artists donated works to the Artists for Haiti fundraising exhibit, which opened March 7, 2010, and will run until March 21 at the Indigo Sky Gallery, located at 915 Waters Avenue in...	Jan.14.2010 Poems From Ghana I had the pleasure of living in Ghana in the early 1990s. What a life-altering and enriching experience it was. A graduate student, there on an IFESH fellowship, I fully immersed myself in the country's arts and culture: studied Asante Twi; learned to cook red-red and peanut stew; befriended...
Dec.08.2009 Book Worm A friend writes on his blog about how "wretched paper" has preserved all the poetry of the past, and suddenly I recall a moment, years ago, when I was teaching school in Ghana, as a CUSO (the Canadian answer to VSO or the Peace Corps) volunteer. I was sitting in a mammy wagon in Kumasi...	Jan.21.2009 Activist Says Bono's Pro Bono Is A No No WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 20...Can a man who has been honored by the Queen of England, given a TED award for social activism, named a Time Magazine Person of the Year, nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Grammy and a Nobel Peace Prize be all bad? Leah Schildkraut thinks he can. Bono, lead...