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 …
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 …
