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RIP John Hope Franklin

From the Washington Post:

Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, 94, a revered historian of life in the South and the African-American experience, died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at Duke University's hospital in Durham. Here's the 29-inch AP version of his obit.

Author of the seminal "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans," which has been republished more than seven times, Dr. Franklin was part of the team of scholars who assisted Thurgood Marshall to win Brown

Don't Sleep: 100 Days features the incomparable Mendi Lewis Obadike

Don't Sleep y'all! I've been reporting all year about some of the amazing work the "100 days" project has been doing.

Today is no exception.

The outrageously talented and beautifully brilliant poet, artist, scholar, and superwoman Mendi Lewis Obadike is featured as Day #63.

Check her poem below, and take heed:

Parable of the Lucky Man

I once heard tell of a man who sailed to the heart
of the ocean. He went out all alone in a paper ship.
The gift was that those layers of wafer-thin sheets
carried him

Mandrake society radio: Author, Samiya Bashir, brings the ‘Gospel’ today 3.20.09

Mandrake Society Radio set the season off right with coverage of the Gospel release: Author, Samiya Bashir, brings the ‘Gospel’ today 3.20.09

Says Mandrake's JW Richard:

"Austin author, Samiya Bashir, is about to tell you in her own words about Gospel, her new book of sensual, spiritual poetry from Redbone Press."

Happy Spring Solstice folks! It's on. :)

Pre-order your copy from Amazon today and be the first to get the Gospel!

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Holee Parolee! Springtime has sprung!

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C'mon check it out, Austin!

En el corazon del South Austin
tenemos un love for liberation!

Red Salmon Arts & Resistencia Bookstore
7pm Friday March 20, 2009
Red Salmon Arts presents Cafe Libro,
a bi-monthy open mike series, featuring activist/writer Samiya Bashir.

Samiya's collection of poetry, Where the Apple Falls, was a finalist for the 2005 Lambda Literary Award. Samiya's newest book of poetry, Gospel, is forthcoming in March 2009 from RedBone Press.

Bashir is the editor of two g

VOD: (Place Value.11) Echo=Shadow=Umbrella=Poetry (don't sleep!)

This really should be a "Don't Sleep" post cuz if you've been sleeping on the wild and wooly works of poet and "poam" artist Thylias Moss's work, then it's time to wake up, baby!

"The eleventh increment of the endless, the repeating decimals of poetry's value. This video poam (product of an act of making) acknowlges how interactions and feedback (and other forms of influence) help shape structures of experience, with poetry as one of the umbrellas that from time to time can (reasonably) claim to

Passing Strange

So at this point I've missed so many SXSW events I wanted to check out it's just silly. I missed the screening of Medicine for Melancholy, to which I was so looking forward. I've missed countless interesting panels, made it to a few good ones, missed an apparently wild Feministing karaoke night (although thank you ever so to George Kelly and otehrs who captured excellent pics and video.

One thing I didn't miss -- and here I breathe a deep, deep sigh of relief, was tonight's screening of spike le

Don't Sleep: Thomas Glave's "The Torturer's Wife"

The Torturer's Wife by Thomas Glave


My review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
Thomas Glave is a writer of incomperable talent. This latest collection of short stories blew my mind from the first section of the first story and carried its promise all the way through. If you're new to his work, don't worry! You won't be for long!


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Kai Wright's "Rooting" of Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry's Gay Politics | The Root:

"Black gays and lesbians have been erased from our community’s history with surprising thoroughness. March on Washington planner Bayard Rustin labored away on behalf of the greater good for decades while having his own humanity shunted by fellow movement leaders. Duke Ellington’s genius writing partner Billy Strayhorn’s contributions have been profoundly obscured. And many of the artists who peopled the Harlem Renaissance have had their queer lives e

VOD: "Be light!"

Crow meditation

“Dip fevered neck. Plant
split-lipped calm. Spit wonder. Smile.
Starve dark fright. Be light.”

from Gospel: poems by Samiya Bashir (RedBone Press, 2009)

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