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Aberjhani
Multi-genre author and editor of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.

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Aberjhani Joins Consortium of Doctors Annual Banquet and Convention

Jul.18.2010

Aberjhani Joins Consortium of Doctors Annual Banquet and Convention

An award-winning author of history, journalism, poetry, and fiction, Aberjhani will join the Consortium of Doctors in Savannah, Georgia, on July 24, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel for the organization’s 19th annual celebration convention, and for the 8th anniversary of the unveiling of the African-American Monument.

The author will autograph copies of the gift book ELEMENTAL The Power of Illuminated Love at two different times: from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and from 6 p.m. until approximately 9 p.m.

Aberjhani has published profiles of Consortium of Doctors’ founder Dr. Abigail Jordan in both his book, The American Poet Who Went Home Again, and as part of his African-American Arts Examiner column. The author could not guarantee that copies of The American Poet Who Went Home Again...

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PUBLISHED: May.15.2010

The River of Winged Dreams

What began as Songs of the Angelic Gaze in the summer of 2006 continued the following year as The Bridge of Silver Wings, and developed even further two years after that into The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009. Whether readers describe it as a conversation between one author’s pen and his sense of an angel-populated cosmos, or a modern interpretation of literary voices such as Kahlil...

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PUBLISHED: May.15.2008

ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love

ELEMENTAL The Power of Illuminated Love ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love (ISBN 0972114270) is a celebrated gift book by two acclaimed creative artists: painter Luther E. Vann, whose work was exhibited at the Telfair Museum Jepson Center for the Arts throughout Summer 2008 in Savannah, Ga., followed by another exhibition through the fall at the I.P. Stanback Museum in...

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PUBLISHED: May.01.2008

The American Poet Who Went Home Again

The American Poet Who Went Home Again is a book of creative nonfiction that blends memoir, literary journalism, history, and biography to tell the story of one writer’s rediscovery of his family, his hometown of Savannah, Georgia, and himself. Just like modern literary life, the book expands beyond the safety of pages bound by predictability to explore and often confirm exciting...

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PUBLISHED: Nov.01.2007

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World combines popular music culture, science fiction fantasy, and horror to create a uniquely engaging metaphysical epic. The story takes us inside the world of Danny Blue, a young man struggling to make peace with the death of his girlfriend, a gifted artist named Valerie Hyerman whose passing sparks the creation of a controversial spiritual...

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Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance by Aberjhani and Sandra L. West

PUBLISHED: Sep.01.2003

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File)

The Harlem Renaissance remains exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 21st Century for the same reason that the many people who lived it found it exciting, inspiring, and irresistible in the first half of the 20th Century. Despite the soul-crushing challenges of war, racism, sexism, and political oppression of every kind, poets of the Harlem Renaissance...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.20.1998

I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

Containing six stories and fifty poems, I Made My Boy Out of Poetry, by Savannah poet and author Aberjhani, was initially published by Washington Publications in 1998. The first cover featured an original oil painting by native New Orleans artist Gustave Blache III. The stories and poems in I Made My Boy Out of Poetry were written from the early 1980s to the late 1990s....

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PUBLISHED: May.01.2009

The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009

The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009 is, technically, the fifth book of poetry by the Savannah, Georgia (USA) born author Aberjhani, whose previous titles in the genre are: I Made My Boy out of Poetry; Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black; The Bridge of Silver Wings; and ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love. The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009 firsrt earned a name for itself as a...

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PUBLISHED: May.17.2007

The Harlem Renaissance Way Down South

"The Harlem Renaissance Way Down South" had its official beginnings as a lecture called The Harlem Renaissance in Savannah delivered by author-poet Aberjhani on August 28, 2004, at the Carnegie Branch Library in Savannah, Georgia, to commemorate the re-opening of the library. The branch had been closed for some seven years following damage from a storm. A book signing...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2003

The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (Philosophical Library Series)

In his many novels, poetry, histories, editorials, plays, and letters, W. E. B. Du Bois poured so much of his blindingly incandescent soul into his writings that no single volume could ever contain all of his words or works. In fact, had not the historian David Levering Lewis taken it upon himself to pen his Pulitzer Prize-winning double-volume biography of Du Bois, it is quite...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.16.1998

Literary Savannah

Literary Savannah was among the first in a series of literary travel anthologies published by Hill Street Press when the company was founded in the late 1990s. To include the city of Savannah, Georgia, in such a series would have made good sense at pretty much any time but particularly during the last decade because of the spotlight cast on it by a developing film industry within...

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May.08.2012 - 5:57 pm

World Voices Festival Celebrates Literary Diplomacy (part 1 of 2)

Ethiopian Journalist and "political prisoner" Eskinder Nega. Political relations between China and the United States may have been visibly strained due to Chinese activist...

Apr.15.2012 - 11:45 am

Trayvon Martin, Robert Lee, and Millions of Tears Fallen (Part 1)

Tracy Martin, Jahvaris Fulton, and Sybrina Fulton, the family of slain teenager Trayvon Martin. (photo by Benjamin Myers/Reuters) Florida State Attorney Angela Corey’s...

Feb.17.2012 - 3:30 pm

Notebook on Black History Month 2012 (Part 6): The Consecrated Soul of Whitney Houston (editorial and poem)

With the death of Soul Train founder Don Cornelius at the very beginning of the month, and that of Whitney Houston on February 11, Black History Month 2012 is fated to go down in...

Feb.15.2012 - 9:06 am

Notebook on Black History Month 2012 (Part 4): The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

After opening in U.S. theatres September 9, 2011, and closing November 6, 2011, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 managed a total domestic gross of only $268,813 before making...

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Apr.16.2012 - 5:15 pm

In response to: Easter and its Aftermath

Fun and excitement indeed

Such a beautiful family portrait painted in "Woodsong" tones and the blessed colors of Easter. Thank you Sue for...

Apr.16.2012 - 5:06 pm

In response to: Trayvon Martin, Robert Lee, and Millions of Tears Fallen (Part 1)

You're so right Sue

We really have lost far too many people based on nothing but "hate or foolishness." Strange how we're so quick...

Feb.05.2012 - 1:06 pm

In response to: Concerning the Disappearance of My Reviews on Amazon

And Peace to you Don...

The way it all went down was a big surprise but I mean what I said about making something very positive out of it. Some...

Feb.05.2012 - 1:02 pm

In response to: Notebook on Black History Month 2012 (Part 2): Remembering Arthur Ashe

Thank you for your comments Keiko

I think some people saw Ashe as cold because he had to maintain a very rigid practice of self-discipline to accomplish...

Jan.30.2012 - 10:27 am

In response to: Notebook on Black History Month 2012 (Part 1): Carter G. Woodson and Company

American politics 21st century style

Thank you Sue. I actually missed Gates' presentation on Book Notes but Woodson is featured in my Encyclopedia of the...

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Apr.27.2009

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File)

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"The writing is superb. The passages are about 1-4 pages each, and they confront the reader with the snap, crackle and pop of concise, crisp journalistic prose."

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Video: Angel of Better Days to Come

Video: Angel of Christmas Love Shining Bright

Video: Angel of Peace by Aberjhani (video poem with text and music)

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A native of Savannah, Georgia (USA) Aberjhani is a winner of the Thomas Jefferson Award for his journalism, the Choice Academic Title and Best History Book Awards for his historical writings, the Creative Loafing Critic’s Pick Best Savannah Author Award for...

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Multi-genre author and editor of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.