Kiilu Nyasha is one of my sheroes. She became politically aware as a youth and has been an active member of the struggle to bring human rights and dignity to all people. What is especially impressive about her struggle is that a significant amount of her revolutionary activism has been accomplished as a disabled […]
On Wednesday January 18, 2017 in a windy, cold pouring rain storm San Francisco’s Main Library’s Koret Auditorium under the auspicious of the SFPL and LItquake filled with people listening to writers responding to the looming reality of a Trump presidency. It was an honor for me to be […]
I was brought up knowing that my grandparents were West Indian immigrants. I knew my father was born with dual citizenship. It wasn’t until this part of our talks that I realized how it affected him. Earlier you said you didn’t really think of yourself as a child of immigrants despite […]
My father lived on 117th near Lennox, now Malcolm X Boulevard. Many of his stories were about that neighborhood which holds so much romance in the American, especially Black American, historical memory. Let’s talk about Harlem. What was it like on your block, in your corner of the ‘hood? The […]
A friend e-mailed me recently asking if I she could use a poem I sent to her a while ago. I read the poem and for just over a day could not remember whose dead I spoke of. The names gave clues, Syria was freshest, but then it could have […]
giovanni singleton is a writer who is always seeking to find new lands where her ideas can root and new seas where they can sail. Award winning Poet and editor, , visual poet, and prose writer, giovanni singleton is a writer who dares to be herself. e.e. cummings once wrote […]
Coming back to the blank space of my blog is not unlike facing the blank page. I have so many thoughts pressing out. The question is where do I begin? Actually though beginnings are rarely the problem the thought or breath the stroke or settle that word- the second step […]
Sitting down to write something new, facing the blank journal paper blinking computer screen I often just write. I create a stream of consciousness word dump that may begin to take form and show me what I need to be writing about in that moment. At other times there is […]
What caused you to turn to writing as a way of expression and connection? I am a serious nerd and always have been. I would like to say that it was my reading habit that inspired me to write but I think that there were a number of contributing factors. […]
I am moving. I am moving from a house to a house, subtext to that statement: lots of stuff. Also I am moving from renter to home owner which means I really don’t want to bring any clutter. It is easy for me to jettison clothes I haven’t worn for […]
