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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt. –James Baldwin Oh! She looks so...delightfully bored, Janaya Black, I thought to myself as I stood in front of the odd collection of writers and folk-alike, a linear view beyond Versandra Kennebrew, …
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Push Nevahda talks to Dr. David Orr
Push Nevahda talks to Dr. Meredith A. Ellis
Push Nevahda talks to Dr. Milton Sernett
9/11/2010 I miss how I never met you there where everyone dances, and sings, and finds themselves in another Smiling for the pleasures that await them in new and happy faces and us and everyone around and in the place Inside and out there is a rhythm of laughter and bodies positioning and being positioned …
I’d spent the best of the brisk evening at Camelot discussing art, literature, Detroit, and the direction of my novel with my good friend and confidante, (Ypsilanti poet) Nina Simmone. It was getting late and Nina opened another bottle of wine while I looked through her small collection of books, searching for something to soothe my dreary …
Continue reading "Book Review: Infants Of The Spring, by Wallace Thurman"
I arrived in Michigan later than I’d originally planned. I made an appointment with Sylvia Hubbard to discuss matters of writing, books, literary criticism, my practicum and, once again, the current state of urban literature. I was also eager to talk to Sylvia about her collection of short stories, the purpose of literature, and my new …
Continue reading "Book Review: Anatole Broyard, When Kafka Was The Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir"
Short story writing is a serious craft to learn because it requires a certain mastery of time, space, and reflection. Not many do it well and those who dare to go out on this crooked and unstable limb often return broken, bewildered and bruised. Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston, and Charles Bukowski are three of several …
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Push Nevahda talks to Ken Mcdaniel
Push Nevahda talks to Dr. Carl Westmoreland
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