This is my first Black History Month as a blogger and now, a podcaster. I am kicking off February with a “You Gotta Read This” podcast this Tuesday, February 2nd at 4:45pmEST. My guest is the poet extraordinaire Remica L. Bingham, author of CONVERSION (Lotus Press, 2007). Remica Bingham is a brilliant poet and thinker. […]
We already know the holidays are over. To use my Negro Dialect, it’s done been time for you to start thinking about submissions. But I know if I let you know about deadlines too far in advance, some of y’all will just forget all about them. (Come on now, be honest). For those out there […]
Hey Y’all: Don’t forget to join me tomorrow at 7:30pm Eastern–which, by the way, is 4:30pm Pacific, 5:30pm Mountain, and 6:30pm Central–for MY VERY FIRST PODCAST EVER with Heidi Durrow, the author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, out right now from Algonquin Books. You need to cop that book right now. Here’s […]
Hey Good People: I am starting a new podcast for my “You Gotta Read This” feature! I’m so excited about it! You can probably tell that from all the exclamation points! My very first podcast will take place on TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, AT 7:30PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME, and it will be with Heidi Durrow, the […]
I’m sorry if you’ve checked my blog in the past couple of days and were disappointed by the lack of information on the recent earthquake in Haiti. Frankly, I’ve just been emotionally devastated by what happened, and I cannot even begin to wonder what folks who are from Haiti are going through. Let alone what […]
Beloved people, I have not forgotten you. It’s just that I have a very tight deadline that I am working on, and syllabi for my classes that start right up after King Day (as we called it when I was growing up in Atlanta), and in the meantime, I’m trying to keep up with writing […]
Happy New Year, y’all! Or, like, in two days. First, I want to thank everyone for the wonderful support of my blog. When I started this blog, I didn’t know what I was doing. I just knew I had some things I wanted to get off my chest, and I hoped people would listen. Well, […]
It’s officially the Christmas holidays, and I hope it doesn’t disappoint you to know I’m not really a cocoa-drinking, sitting-around-the-tree-and/or-fire kind of sister. And let’s not even talk about participating in Kwanzaa. I don’t knock it, but I like my made-up holidays to be several hundred years old before I become a willing zealot. No […]
There’s a pretty place in New England called Soul Mountain Retreat. It sits in a beautiful little town in Connecticut and writers visit there to find a quiet spot. They have a kitchen to cook their meals and a nice room with clean, cute sheets and a desk. They walk the picturesque grounds to find […]
Hey y’all, I am finally back on the prairie and recovering from my long drive from Tennessee. Ordinarily, it would have been only nine hours, but it turned out to be thirteen. The problem is, I hit some wrong button on my GPS, and it sent me all the way through the backwoods of Arkansas. […]