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Month: February 2010

Good Luck Tonight, Baby Bruh Dwayne!

Posted on February 26, 2010 AdministratorLeave a commentPosted in Uncategorized

A little while ago, I had a blog post called “I Heart Uppity (Part One)” and if you followed the comments thread, you noticed I had a rather emotional (at least to me) exchange with a brother I called “Dwayne.” He was disturbed about my saying that I would never date a man who’d been […]

*Hustle Alert Update: NEA Fellowship in Poetry Deadline is MARCH 4!*

Posted on February 25, 2010 AdministratorLeave a commentPosted in Uncategorized

Hey Y’all: I totally forgot to include that the NEA in Poetry deadline is March 4! That’s next Thursday! And you need to go to the website RIGHT NOW. I mean right this minute, because they have some strange, annoying online submissions thing that takes a few days for you to enroll. I tried it […]

*Hustle Alert: Feb. 28/March 1, 2010 Deadlines!*

Posted on February 23, 2010 AdministratorLeave a commentPosted in Uncategorized

Hey Good People, I’m trying to come back slowly here, and thank y’all so much for your patience. I just appreciate all y’all so much. The end of the month deadlines always get me going, whether I want to or not. You know how I feel about paying those bills. I’ve got few pieces of […]

Good, Strange, Right-on-Time Blessings

Posted on February 20, 2010 AdministratorLeave a commentPosted in Uncategorized

I didn’t expect to be talking again to y’all so soon after my sweet poet-friend, Lucille Clifton passed, but something happened, and I wanted to share it with y’all. Please give me a minute to go around the barnyard with my story, because it takes me a minute to tell something from beginning to end. […]

Ms. Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936-February 13, 2010)

Posted on February 14, 2010 AdministratorLeave a commentPosted in Uncategorized

My good friend, mentor, second mother, and Black Poetry Mother Ms. Lucille Clifton died yesterday. To say I am devastated is an understatement, but I did not want to do my grieving in public. I don’t want to chastise other folks who are doing their grieving in public, but that’s not my way. Then I […]

Have You Kissed Your Mentor Today?

Posted on February 12, 2010 AdministratorLeave a commentPosted in Uncategorized

It’s Valentine’s Day weekend, so allow me a sweet roll call of the folks in my life who have pushed, pulled, and cajoled me to where I am today: Hank Lazer, Afaa Michael Weaver, Lucille Clifton, Maggie Anderson, Sonia Sanchez, Elizabeth Alexander , David Lynn—and that distinguished gentleman on the left? That’s The Man, the […]

Poetry Society of America, Don't You Like Black Babies?

Posted on February 10, 2010 AdministratorLeave a commentPosted in Uncategorized

Y’all, the Poetry Society of America is now the talk of the Colored People Poets of America today. Apparently, writer Fred Viebahn, the husband of poet Rita Dove, has sent an email of protest to the Poetry Society of America’s director, Alice Quinn about their gallery of baby pictures of poets. There are no African […]

No Mitchell L. H. Douglas Podcast Today!

Posted on February 9, 2010 AdministratorLeave a commentPosted in Uncategorized

Y’all, I’m so sorry, but there will be no podcast today with Mitchell L. H. Douglas. Some nasty computer virus has got his poor computer all sick and so he can’t connect with the podcast sight, Talkshoe.com this evening. BUT WE WILL BE RESCHEDULING HIS “You Gotta Read This” PODCAST! Mitchell will be our only […]

Happy Birthday, Alice Walker!

Posted on February 9, 2010 AdministratorLeave a commentPosted in Uncategorized

I’ve got a special place in my heart for Alice Walker. My mother, Trellie James Jeffers, was her seventh grade teacher back in the day in Eatonton, Georgia at Butler-Baker High School. Miss Alice even wrote my mama a poem back then, though she wasn’t my mama then, of course. And she didn’t have the […]

"You Gotta Read This" w/Mitchell L.H. Douglas

Posted on February 8, 2010 AdministratorLeave a commentPosted in Uncategorized

Ok, I’m happy the Saints won the Super Bowl, but I don’t follow football. Wait a minute–don’t y’all start boo-ing me, pretty please! I just can’t understand the game. I tried, but the rules go over my head. And my last man said he was going to explain but we broke up before he could. […]

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