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Apr.14.2009
"Do I dare disturb the universe?"
--T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
My eyes widened when I opened the envelope from the American Academy of Poets, unfolded the poster inside, and read the above quote traced upon an image of a wet glass. I recognized the...
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Apr.10.2009
As a home to more than 200 families, Robert M. Hitch Village is the largest government housing project in Savannah, Georgia, and just happens to be the place where this particular author grew up until the age of twelve. Growing up there as a black youth in the 1960s, I never imagined that one day...
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Apr.08.2009
One of the major revelations for me while watching the film Wonders Are Many, The Making of Dr. Atomic, was learning that Julius Robert Oppenheimer, the "father" of the atomic bomb, loved reading and writing poetry in several languages. This fact of course does not erase the ongoing...
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Apr.07.2009
For a salute to The Poets of the Angels Please Click here
For the conclusion of The Great Old Man Mystical Poet on the Mountain, continue reading below:
They spoke mostly of failed relationships and sexual desire, with one or two venturing into the more dangerous realms of race relations and...
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Apr.02.2009
For Part 1 of The Great Old Man Mystical Poet on the Mountain Please Click Here
For Poetic Notes on beatmeister Jack Kerouac Enjoy this link
To continue the adventures of The Great Old Man Mystical Poet, please read on:
Where the hell had that crack about me being "the old man on a mountain...
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Apr.01.2009
Although I actually write fiction, creative nonfiction, reference works and journalism as well as poetry, much of my work seems to somehow employ poetry as a kind of touchstone or launching pad. Therefore, I tend to be big on celebrating National Poetry Month, which starts on this very day, and...
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Mar.30.2009
Please Join Us at the Symposium
"Art has to do with the sustaining and invigorating of the Personality. To be strong is to be happy. Art by expressing our feelings makes us strong and therefore happy." --John Butler Yeats in letter to Edward Dowden, 31 Dec, 1869
Among the...
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Mar.28.2009
It's always nice when a writer can acknowledge some minor connection to the subjects of a blog such as this. In regard to Ellington, I can only say it was a great pleasure to write the article on him featured in Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts On File). However, where Mercer is...
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Mar.25.2009
Visionary Vibes started out as a somewhat bold experimental column published in the Creative Loafing weekly entertainment news magazine during the mid 1990s. It has since made appearances on in a number of publications and on such web sites as AuthorsDen, Blogit, and Bright Skylark Literary...
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Mar.23.2009
The existence of music itself is reason enough for some of us to approach each day with an attitude of gratitude but--some of its more accomplished craftsmen and craftswomen provide us with real opportunities to stop, look, listen, and celebrate, especially with Jazz Appreciation Month only a few...
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Mar.21.2009
Between the Waning Moons of 2008 and the Rising Suns of 2009
With or without a political mandate to add to their impact, changes big and small are ongoing features of what we call our human condition. The selection of President-Elect Barack Obama as the United States of America's next chief...
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Mar.20.2009
As National Poetry Month 2009 approaches, I confess to feeling blessed by the abundance of creative inspiration that muses have started to shower upon the thoughts, lives, and pens of those inclined to mold such impulses into the vast varieties of what we call poetry and jazz. My own muse has...
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Mar.18.2009
THE POLITICS OF THE MUSE AND THE LIGHT THAT NEVER DIES
In my recent GRITS.com interview with Marlive Harris and Luther E. Vann, I mentioned two poems in connection to presidential candidate Barack Obama. One was Midnight Flight of the Poetry Angels and the other was this poem,...
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Mar.17.2009
The following is the first in a three-part series of celebrated blogs on the 2008 presidential campaign.
Why I Cried When Barack Obama Received the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States
The writer Victor Sejour, who counted the great French author Alexandre Dumas among...
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Mar.16.2009
My get-pumped factor generally jumps into high gear this time of year because mid-March means April is on the way, and April is the officially-designated month for celebrating two of humanity’s most enduring creative triumphs: poetry and jazz.
I’m particularly jazzed this year over the poetry...
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The process of writing evolves one's consciousness and transforms the aspiring writer into an individual that he or she never fully imagined becoming. ”
—Gale Contemporary Authors
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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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