All posts tagged "Culture"
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Kathryn Stockett Is Not My Sister and I Am Not Her Help
By Duchess Harris, PhD, JD. I did not attend Wednesday’s movie release of “The Help” from DreamWorks Pictures, based on the New York Times best-selling...
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“Feministing” Bernini: What Italian Art Taught Me
By Keri Day How might art both reflect complex social realities and inspire social realities to be more radically inclusive and complimentary of human flourishing?...
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Featured Poet: Stephanie M. Pruitt
Ode to the Hyphen ____________ No dash, minus sign or broken line, you fill / and make continuous until there is no pause / for...
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Poet Spotlight: Rickey Laurentiis
Mood for Love ____________NEW ORLEANS, LA ____________AUGUST, 2005 ______1. (There I go.) I am the man / stepping up to the water. I am...
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Writer Spotlight: Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Food-Related Flashes I have reached a lifetime low. In this very moment, I sit perched on the edge of a bathroom counter with no soap,...
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Two Exhibits, One Film, and the Pleasures of Gertrude Stein
By Sharon J. Kirsch When Gertrude Stein comes to the United States, she does so in a big way. In 1934, Stein, who had spent...
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On Her Birthday: Octavia E. Butler, Mountain Climber
Four days ago, my colleague and I decided to set off on our own, without our host, to explore London—a quick sightseeing and shopping trip...
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Poetry Spotlight: Ansel Elkins
WOMAN WITH THE SEVERED ARM i At dawn she leaves the house in her field coat, the skinny hound on the porch follows. _______The fog...
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The Global Imagination of James Baldwin
This interview between Sean Jacobs, professor and founder of the blog africasacountry.com, and Rich Blint, was first published at the interviewer’s site and appears here...
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London Diary
It’s a chilly spring weekend in London, although the cold this time of year is not unprecedented, and tourists by the busload descend on Piccadilly...
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Spotlight Poet: Ladan Osman
For the Woman whose Love is a Bird of Passage————- I am so poor before you. A grackle / whose colors are as good as...
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Music Spotlight: Diallo Hall Introduces Singer Liz Ogumbo
By Diallo Hall Music has been central to the very existence of the Luo people of East Africa since the dawn of time. Their songs...
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Featured Poet: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
The Body Deformed by Tidal Forces — Darkness still here, hunkered against the trees. / Spring so uneasy this year. / No matter morning’s boundary...
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Artist Spotlight: Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi
Untitled 2011 Oil 20” by 20” La Mecedora #2 2009 Oil 40” by 40” Ghana 2008 Mixed Media 35” by 48” Ines P....
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Featured Writer: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
from “A Strange People” We-Chrissie will let the white men see and touch our difference. She will smile for doctors and handlers like Mrs. Susan’s...
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The Defiant One: Euzhan Palcy
By Trica Danielle Keaton For Joanne and David Burke, with thanks and appreciation. Marlon Brando, Susan Sarandon, Donald Sutherland, Gérard Depardieu and the controversial American...
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Birds of Different Feathers
By Patricia Friedrich I have to confess that it was with some trepidation that I took my family to see the new animated movie Rio....
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Spotlight Poet: Nicole Sealey
Underperforming Sonnet Overperforming ————–FOR MARILYN NELSON This poem, this time, is the best idea / I’ve ever had—the best in history / even, the best...
