$19.95
Author : Shonda Buchanan
ISBN Code : 1-59907-015-4
Language : English
Pages number : 201
Format : 6â€x 9â€, Softcover
An anthology like this has been a long time coming. For the last fifteen years, every place we come together, whether it was The World Stage, or someone’s party, a birthday gathering, a child’s naming ceremony, a funeral or a home-going, whether it was a cement corner or Fifth Street Dicks (Richard Fulton’s place) backed up by a jazz band, we have always brought words. …We all knew [this anthology] needed to happen, but we were busy living and loving, making babies and building careers. And, of course, we were writing. Yet, we knew a renaissance was happening in Los Angeles, akin to the Harlem Renaissance. But we were caught up in it, shaking, grinding our pencils down, downing endless cups of coffee at a table outside Fifth Street, trying to find the words to say it precisely the way our heart was beating the sounds out.
POETS IN THE ANTHOLOGY
mikael ahadou
riua akinshegun
kim benjamin
jennifer bowen
shonda buchanan
paul calderon
wanda coleman
kamau daÃood
michael datcher
jawanza dumisani
ruth forman
goldie the poet
peter j. harris
levan hawkins
reginahiggins
yuri hinson
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jamal holmes
wendy james/tcheconsase
jason luckett
josslyn luckett
k. curtis lyle
a.c. lyons sr.
ymasumac maraÑÓn
keith antar mason
lynnmanning
jose mendivil
sequoia olivia mercier
rhonda lynn mitchell
merilene m. murphy
art nixon
v. kali nurigan
nancypadron
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e. j. priestley
jerry quickley
ariel robello
s. pearl sharp
renee simms
romus simpson
raaki solomon
hannibaltabu
jervey tervalon
lynne thompson
imani tolliver
a.k. toney
debra a. varnado
pam ward
conney d. williams
angelo williams
jaha zainabu
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