Sweta Srivastava Vikram, POET
http://lunalunamag.com/2015/08/13/sweta-srivastava-vikram/ Honored to have worked with Sweta as literary editor of several of her books; click on link to learn about her most recent book of poetry.
Tag: Loving Healing Modern History Press
LOVE IMAGINED: synopsis read at two Book Award Events
MINNESOTA BOOK AWARDS THE LOFT LITERARY CENTER MARCH 20, 2015 HOSMER LIBRARY MARCH 23, 2015 (36th and 4th Avenue by Richard Green School, previously Central High School) (Aunt Lucille Wilson Shivers lived on 39th and 4th Avenue. Her husband, Spencer Shiver, owned the barber shop on the corner of 38th …
Love Imagined: a mixed race memoir-six months later
Hi everyone, quick note. I just finished rereading LOVE IMAGINED in its entirety since publication, August 2014 (in preparation for a radio cast next week). I didn’t cry! Writing, like love, can be painful, but also transcendent. Write, keep on writing-read, but most of all live!
Exerpts from LOVE IMAGINED
Someone asked me early on why I wrote mostly about my Black identity. I realized it was because that was the identity I was denied. My father is Chinese, an immigrant, arriving in the U.S. when he was eleven. My mother is Negro, according to my birth certificate. However, my mother was “passing” ; for her that meant not telling anyone she was Black, although, come to think of it, I’m not sure she told anyone she was white either. I was brought up to deny who I was. Except, if push came to shove I could say I was Chinese. Funny, how many people ask me if my mother is mixed, black and white. Well, yes, there was that Irish Plantation owner’s son that impregnated my great grandmother; however, there is a history in America that if you have one drop of black blood, you are black, period.
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SHERRY QUAN LEE
HOW DARE WE! WRITE
SEPTUAGENARIAN
AND YOU CAN LOVE ME
LOVE IMAGINED
CHINESE BLACKBIRD
HOW TO WRITE A SUICIDE NOTE
LOVE IMAGINED: synopsis read at two Book Award Events
MINNESOTA BOOK AWARDS THE LOFT LITERARY CENTER MARCH 20, 2015 HOSMER LIBRARY MARCH 23, 2015 (36th and 4th Avenue by Richard Green School, previously Central High School) (Aunt Lucille Wilson Shivers lived on 39th and 4th Avenue. Her husband, Spencer Shiver, owned the barber shop on the corner of 38th …
Love Imagined: a mixed race memoir-six months later
Hi everyone, quick note. I just finished rereading LOVE IMAGINED in its entirety since publication, August 2014 (in preparation for a radio cast next week). I didn’t cry! Writing, like love, can be painful, but also transcendent. Write, keep on writing-read, but most of all live!
Exerpts from LOVE IMAGINED
Someone asked me early on why I wrote mostly about my Black identity. I realized it was because that was the identity I was denied. My father is Chinese, an immigrant, arriving in the U.S. when he was eleven. My mother is Negro, according to my birth certificate. However, my mother was “passing” ; for her that meant not telling anyone she was Black, although, come to think of it, I’m not sure she told anyone she was white either. I was brought up to deny who I was. Except, if push came to shove I could say I was Chinese. Funny, how many people ask me if my mother is mixed, black and white. Well, yes, there was that Irish Plantation owner’s son that impregnated my great grandmother; however, there is a history in America that if you have one drop of black blood, you are black, period.
-
SHERRY QUAN LEE
HOW DARE WE! WRITE
SEPTUAGENARIAN
AND YOU CAN LOVE ME
LOVE IMAGINED
CHINESE BLACKBIRD
HOW TO WRITE A SUICIDE NOTE
