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Bettina Judd’s Poetic Justice
(PHOTO: Courtesy of Bettina Judd) Bettina She didn’t go looking for poetry. In fact, it was the other way around, Bettina Judd told a packed house Friday evening at the 14th and V streets Busboys and...
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Review of Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s *Mule & Pear*
(IMAGE: New Issues) You’ve seen that movie or read the novel, the one where the ending blindsided you. The hero or heroine, for whom you rooted throughout the drama, was either captured or killed. Or...
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Carolyn Malachi’s Capacity for Love and Happiness
(PHOTO: Jati Lindsay) Carolyn Malachi's 2008 debut project, 'Revenge of the Smart Chicks,' is a rally call to empower women in the arts. Five minutes before her set, Carolyn Malachi was at a corner...
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The Afro-Peruvian Experience Through Dance and Rhythm
(PHOTO: Courtesy) Vicky Leyva The dancers in dark pink and aqua-blue flamenco dresses startled the crowd when they dashed down the aisle of chairs on the Sub Level 1 floor of the Smithsonian National...
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Urban Renewal: Major Jackson and Audre Lorde
(PHOTO: Erin Patrice O'Brien) Major Jackson The speakers in both Major Jackson’s 11-part poem “Urban Renewal” (from Leaving Saturn) and Audre Lorde’s Coal are both city dwellers coming to terms with...
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Get Ready For Split This Rock!
(PHOTO: Nancy Bratton Design) I don’t know about the other attendees, but I’m still swooning from Jan Beatty’s reading at Split This Rock 2010. That year marked the second time for the biennial...
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Makalani Bandele’s *Hellfightin*
Detroit, MI: Willow Books, 2012. 65 pages. $14.95. (ARTWORK: Courtesy) There’s a lot of music in Makalani Bandele’s debut Hellfightin (Willow Books, 2012). The title’s a subtle bow to the Harlem...
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Tidal Basin Review Doing Big Things!
(PHOTO: Tidal Basin Review) Click the artwork to view larger image. If you’re like me, you probably wondered what brought on the unseasonably warm weather a couple of weeks ago. And, like me, you’ll...
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Monica Hand’s *me and Nina*
Farmington, MA: Alice James Books, 2012. 78 pages. $15.95. (ARTWORK: Krista Franklin) The world continues to remember Nina Simone (formerly Eunice Kathleen Waymon) as a storyteller through songs, whose...
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Randall Horton’s *Roxbury*
Cleveland Heights, OH: Kattywompus Press, 2012. 33 pages. $12.00. (ARTWORK: Randall Horton and Kattywompus Press) It was a Sunday evening nearly a decade ago when I first met Randall Horton. We were...
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Out of Darkness, Comes Art and a Lighter Side of Ellington’s LMC Staff
(PHOTO: Stock Image) A therapy session goes wrong when Wade, an angst-ridden 16-year-old, pulls his therapist, Myra, into an oral sword fight after accusing her of “mind-fucking” him like he imagines...
View ArticleTony Medina’s “Broke on Ice”
EDITOR’S NOTE: I wrote this piece back in 2011 and pitched it to a journal that promised to publish it. It’s obvious that didn’t happen, which is why – in honor of National Poetry Month and Dr. Tony...
View ArticlePOINT BLANK Reviewed in Run and Tell That Magazine
I’m grateful to Run & Tell That magazine for this close reading and review of POINT BLANK: Art collides with personal experience collides with history and the violence of segregation becomes the...
View ArticlePOINT BLANK Reviewed in the Washington City Paper
The Washington City Paper is out! This week’s issue includes a review of POINT BLANK. Here’s an excerpt: “Poetry that tells stories is good when you can find it. But it’s not always easy for that kind...
View ArticleREVIEW: One Turn Around The Sun by Tim Seibles
A writer’s true power, as Toni Morrison once put it, is his/her ability “to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar.” Tim does both in his latest collection, One Turn Around The Sun, a...
View ArticleConcerning Craft: Alan King and His Sources of Inspiration — Little Patuxent...
Big thanks to The Little Patuxent Review for inviting me to submit this guest blog post as part of their Concerning Craft series. When the impulse hits and the words come, I keep myself open for how...
View ArticleMy Two Cents on the Canon T7i
The Canon T7i is my first professional camera. I took it out yesterday, while taking my daughter to the park. Below is a brief review.
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