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Editorial Statement
Jan 01, 2008; Troupe, Quincy ... The year 2.008 might prove to be one of the most pivotal years in the history of the United States, and indeed of the entire world, in a very long time. For starters, after forty-nine years in power, Cuban president Fidel Castro has relinquished his position as head of state. The wars in ...
Was Blind, but Now I See
Jan 01, 2008; Coleman, Wanda ... (Excerpt from the forthcoming novel Liver Lips Sonata) THE EARLY October morning she met Mr. Charles was chilly yet sunny, the fog having burned off mere hours before. The conference hall ruffled pleasantly with the soft-footed doings-and-goings of a dozen middle-aged and elderly White ...
Max Roach REST IN PEACE
Jan 01, 2008; Ho, Fred ... January 10, 1924-August 15, 2007 All Praise Due to Max Roach. With His Passing the Reign of the Regurgitators Has Begun: A Commentary by Fred Ho Max Roach, heralded as "the greatest jazz drummer of all time," passed away on August 15, 2007. With his death jazz died. An ...
blink your eyes
Jan 01, 2008; Sundiata, Sekou ... copyright Sekou Sundiata, 1995 what is the mathematics of today? what can I say? I was on my way to see my woman but the Law said I was on my way through a red light red light red light but if you saw my woman you could understand I ...
An Oriki for Sekou Sundiata
Jan 01, 2008; Johnson, Jacqueline ... FROM OUR FIRST MEETING UNTIL HIS DEATH, exchanges between Sekou and I were never planned and occurred at the juncture of poet and stage, of poet and poet, and most recently, of our respective blocks. A few notes from my literary scrapbook follow. It was the 1980$. I had just started ...
The Power of One
Jan 01, 2008; Williams, Patricia J ... When Oprah Winfrey announced her intention to endorse the presidential candidacy of Senator Barack Obama, the race and gender dynamics of the American media machine quivered and paused, if ever so slightly, in its eternal milling of the lowest possible common denominator. This monkey ...
THE SLIDE: A Novel in Progress
Jan 01, 2008; Pate, Alexs ... In James Wright's office was a gallery of criminals. Photographs and articles about the men pictured in the photographs were scattered all over in small stacks. Some were on both chairs facing his desk; Some were on the green leather couch, on the coffee table, the floor, and, of course, there ...
EXTRAVAGANZAS
Jan 01, 2008; Jacques, Geoffrey ... Music is inherently psychedelic -TAN LIN -who wishes to aid the global trance movement this isn't really a survey, because it doesn't strange start breaking my heart! & buy this now who believes the spiritual in the mundane the act will have ...
ODE
Jan 01, 2008; Jacques, Geoffrey ... facilitate core cross-functions share your life with knowledge think over the performance pursue an open synergy embrace smart excellence enhance global content utilize this capital position to mean effective growth make the product ...
THE CILANTRO OF GENERALS
Jan 01, 2008; Jacques, Geoffrey ... Americans to market driven, And bartered as the brute for gold! John Greenleaf Whittier, "Expostulation" (1834) Mercantile drovers & no added sugar asks you to mate with a sprig while he has sexual mistaken for shady unsuspecting town ...
Black-Eyed Susan
Jan 01, 2008; Adisa, Opal Palmer ... she was compassionate dogs never walked by without licking her hand but someone wanted to make something of the fact that she did seem able to keep a boy-friend that her clothes were often faded that he hair ...
Coconut Bread
Jan 01, 2008; Adisa, Opal Palmer ... hungry chickens in a coop water spilling from a busted pipe the bass of the music played a haunting rhythm in her stomach if this was how it had to be she would recline massage her lower abdomen knead oil into her ...
ROBERT E. LEE IS DEAD
Jan 01, 2008; Evans, Danielle ... For making honor roll you got these stupid Mylar balloons. They were silver on the back and red or blue or pink on the front, with CONGRATULATIONS written in big clashing letters. The balloons were supplied by the army recruiters who had an office across the street from our football field, and ...
Corn-Bread
Jan 01, 2008; Adisa, Opal Palmer ... exiting backwards her father's warming an armor against the jealous wagging tongues of the frustrated women but she would not lay beneath any man or allow his insecurity to determine the path her feet would take a ...
CRISSA
Jan 01, 2008; Adisa, Opal Palmer ... (natal plum) as a child she observed cane-cutters sweating all day under the sun always looking ragged their children running barefoot and wives buying food on credit determined to end the repeated cycle of those who seemed ...
Lamont
Jan 01, 2008; King, Alan ... I wantyall to meet my manager-first name Fill Up, last name The Bucket he bobs his unkempt fro & his muscular arms rap out a rapid Rock beat on a skillet & a 5-gallon bucket metro riders & tourists gather round Lament ...
Tony Soprano's Appointment with Dr. Melfi
Jan 01, 2008; King, Alan ... you probably t'ink I'm a regular prejudicial prick, but I got Carmela and da kids to worry about dis ain't like when my ol' man was around, dem coloreds had deir neighborhood, we had ours wit'out sayin' it, we knew where da bound'ries ...
The Urge
Jan 01, 2008; King, Alan ... in the check-out line at Safeway, fighting the urge to blush when a cashier says, if I was five years younger, you'd be in trouble "boy, you gotta do more than just grin at that fine woman," my father would say before going on bout dental ...
Foghorn Leghorn's Lament
Jan 01, 2008; King, Alan ... now hold-I say, hold on now. hawk or no hawk, it ain't right for that boy to go terrorizin' older folks like that shootin' them with arrows, callin' himself big chickenhawk engine and dancin' with his feathered head-piece like some ...
The believers
Jan 01, 2008; King, Alan ... I'm next in line for a miracle-Pastor Hicky a line in the theme park stretches past carnival rides, a sno-cone stand and kids cheering for cotton candy the row of fellas sucking on tic tacs, fumbling a fistful of tickets for the kissing ...