Just a few tweaks to a holiday gift. Time spent: a lunch, an hour after dinner, a morning coffee break–a lifetime of New Years’ wishes. Happy Holidays everyone. XXXXXXXXXXX you asked me for a poem. A clever and brazen request. It’s not so easy. Poems come and go. Fly like …
Give the gift of a poem . . . . Don’t know what to give that special someone? Three days ‘til Christmas eve, Kwanza five days away, a New Year just around the corner; whatever the occasion, don’t forget you can give a poem. A poem costs nothing but …
‘”You could write about this,” I suggested, ever the believer in the healing power of words. No, he said, no — he’d never write about it — …” ‘ –Catherine Watson, MinnPost, Dec.14, 2009 I haven’t written a blog entry in weeks, too many weeks. But I …
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 …
