Well written, well researched. The first book I’ve read about the Duluth lynchings, though I’ve been meaning to for sometime. Read delivers a story amongst many stories which has led me to research further into our history of lynching which, for the little I have now read on the internet, …
Three poets, whom I have mentored in the past, have had books published this month, March 2011. CONGRATULATIONS to Karolyn, Marge, and Nick!
Excerpted from “Sinister Wisdom”, Issue #70 (Spring 2007) Sherry Quan Lee’s book, Chinese Blackbird, is a fascinating narration of how race is lived in the United States today. Born to a Black mother and a Chinese father, much of Sherry Quan Lee’s life was spent understanding race as she lived …
I have only a few chapters still to read in Sharon’s new book. It is an honest and difficult, and important story. Some parts of the story are hauntingly familiar, some parts of the story are hauntingly not familiar at all. Sharon Doubiago is one of my writing mentors. She has …
