Recently added articles from Kola:
At twenty: take two.(Kola's twentieth year of publication)(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2008; ... In my editorial introduction to Kola 20.1, 1 pointed out (or celebrated) several particularities pertinent to the literary journal's first decade: its pan-African and multicultural catholicity, its de facto near-colonization by African-American writers, its private funding, its gradual ...
Editorial.(KOLA's tenth year of publication)(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2008 ... KOLA has just passed its tenth year of publication and the editors would like to see it become an institution. It is one of the few literary magazines that deals mainly with black subject matter and the only black literary magazine published in Canada. KOLA is a source of pride to those ...
The subway ride.(Short story)
Sep 22, 2008; ... As soon as the subway pulled out of the tunnel into the late afternoon light, Toya was sorry she consented to the interview. Even though there weren't any incidents in the Pelham Bay section of this white working class neighborhood, it was a well known fact that minorities weren't welcome ....
Round-Table Talk.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Round-Table Talk Eurocentric discourse:Finances,Resources,and PowerAfrocentric ...
True Sensuality.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> True Sensuality (A Muslim Woman Speaks: Sister to Sister)Ya' all trip me outWhy am I always left outMe?I doubtThat with-outA manYou canAnd willJust chillAnd stillBe a beautiful fulfilledBlack woman in this world ...
Company British Columbia, 1858.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Company British Columbia, 1858. this landis the company's owned, paid for. I wander it.prospecting, guessing, divining ground, countingdays tillthis transforms to home. In my holy ghostly breath, I whisper fissured work songs into ...
The Love Song of Gottingen Street.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> The Love Song of Gottingen Street Here,Own me,Be my cross--My country--I will have no passionNo lover--except you.Your black loins,Your handsome princes,Your beautiful melodies. I will be your fetus--Enduring ...
Self-discovery and the quest for an aesthetic, the emergence of black Canadian literature: 1975 towards the millennium.
Sep 22, 2008; ... The following is a short history on the evolution of black Canadian literature, my quest for an aesthetic and an identity as an artist in contemporary Canada during the latter part of the twentieth century. Though reference is made to many writers, this documentary I must add, is not ...
This issue of KOLA is my last as the editor.(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2008 ... This issue of KOLA is my last as the editor. Associate editor Horace 1. Goddard will be the new editor. My decision to play a less active role with KOLA is due to the constraints of other commitments and responsibilities. The experience as editor though tedious and time consuming, was ...
Mobius Loop.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Mobius Loop Recycle me with your Scotch sweetenedbreath on my skid recycle me withyour reefer chapped lips on my neckrecycle me with your ginger root,cinnamon stick and cherry blossomteal recycle me running your cigarettestained fingers down my ...
Vivenns.(Short story)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Baritone gritted with rasp, he raps to the hypnotic click of a metronome. He raps his written score, then steps out from behind himself. He stares out the window and rolls freestyles from his lips, dropping chrome-lined cars, crumbling buildings, trash heaped streets, women walking in ...
Fulfilment.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Fulfilment It is the rainfall that fulfills. In cafeWindows I regarded groups of young people idle in gossip,inclining heads of the young, gossipingInto their tea or coffee cups-- Rainfall outsideOn the shining small town--on the panes,Pale ...
Sheep Run.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Sheep Run no crow overhead, just blue sky, an abandoned shack, windowless,burnt out, a landscape of distant iron bark approaching, for the next decade,in every space not filled in, by an old sheep, weak, malnourished, gone down in the barepaddock, ...
Kolas's list of 100 plus black authors of the twentieth century (fiction, poetry & drama).(List)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Cameroon Mongo Beti King Lazarus Mbella S. Dipoko A Few Nights and Davs Ferdinand OyonoHouseboy Gambia Lenrie Peters Selected Poetry Ghana Kojo Laing Godhorse (Poetry) Bediako Asare ...
The Dark Falling.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> The Dark Falling Tears are fallingDirectlyInto my stomachFear is crawlingHonestlyIn my bloodWill I danceThe Dark night will hang itselfIn blue sadnessTears will ...
167 Bluff Road.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> 167 Bluff Road After the burning we moved to my grandparent's house,then to my aunt's. After Daddy left we settled into atrailer where our house had been. Ash, concrete, thesquared foundation--burnt pile of our former lives, areminder we cross each day. The ...
Balconville revisited.(Short story)
Sep 22, 2008; ... OSCAR: (Staring intently at six o'clock news on the T. V.) Scary shit, eh? DESMOND: What? OSCAR: This thing at Oka. This land deal that's going down. DESMOND: Oh, the Oka crisis. OSCAR: Focking S.Q., a bunch of jokers. Look at them run. They ...
A candid interview with young Canadian fiction writer Robert Edison Sandiford who presently lives in Barbados.(Interview)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ROBERT EDISON SANDIFORD first came on the scene a little over a decade ago when the names and faces of Black writers began to appear in mainstream listings. He was a freelance writer for local newspapers, The Montreal Gazette and Community Contact among them. A few folks, including myself, ...
Negrophobia.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Negrophobia He discovers the dawning beauty of the earth,from the distance of disillusion's junk-yard,a dead moon and the debris of exploded starsthat once twinkled to awake imaginationfrom firmaments that hide the truth.From The osophic philosophers, ...
Kentucky Fried To Stay.(Poem)
Sep 22, 2008; ... <Pre> Kentucky Fried To Stay (On visiting Yellowknife in the N.W.T. in December of1997 and being observant) They say Colonel Saunders killed a man. I witnessed himswallow a village in an afternoon!Cold, crisp air--it's thirty-seven below. Everyone is...