tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106305482013-05-17T19:10:23.027-05:00occasional musings, magick, & loreSheree Renée Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05060700028153316573noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10630548.post-56003009683208721252012-03-14T14:01:00.000-05:002012-03-14T14:01:37.567-05:00

African-born, Tokyo-based, the beautiful mind behind these lovely kimonos is Serge Mouangue.  Blessed to have his designs showcased in Senegal and in Japan, his work has created quite an exciting buzz in the fashion community.  Serge says that as an artist, he explores and observes the complexities hidden within cultures, and then seeks to weave the disparate threads to create new art.  Here is

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Gil Scott-Heron (April 1, 1949 – May 27, 2011)

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Fine beautiful people, it is nonstop here at WisCon, nonstop, so I'm taking a few minutes of solitary time before heading to the *rest* of the evening's scheduled programming! This includes bustin' a move or two at the Carl Brandon Society's party, crashing the Consuite since I haven't managed to *get there* since we arrived (good grief, and how is this possible?), and heading to Pan Morigan's

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We're in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin now for the 35th annual WisCon - The world's leading feminist science fiction convention!  This year's GoH is writer Nisi Shawl (FILTER HOUSE).  I first met Nisi in 1999 when I was a writer in the six-week Clarion West workshop in Seattle.  Our instructors for the workshop were Nancy Kress, Greg Bear, Octavia Butler, Howard Waldrop, editor Gordon Van

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Fragments: Poets and Artists of the South and Southwest What exactly is ekphrasis? Defined as “the response of one art form to another”, ekphrasis often involves poetry responding to a medium of art. On Friday, October 7, 2011, David Hinske, longtime Memphis resident who currently lives and paints in Taos, New Mexico, and Andrea L. Watson, award-winning poet and performance artist, bring an 

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This quote was made by Civil Rights activist, Medgar Wiley Evers, the field secretary of the NAACP and a major figure in our nation's Civil Rights history. Evers' commitment to the cause of civil rights ultimately led to his murder in Mississippi on June 12, 1963.   Seven years later, Medgar Evers College was founded in central Brooklyn in 1970 through the collaborative efforts of the

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My first short story and poetry chapbook, SHOTGUN LULLABIES, is available now from Aqueduct Press (Seattle, WA)! It is Volume 28 in their award-winning "Conversation Pieces Series." Here is a link to it on the Aqueduct Press website:Aqueduct Press is pleased to announce...  http://www.aqueductpress.com/books/ShotgunLullabies-Vol28.html And yes, that's a John Biggers painting on the cover!

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My first short story and poetry chapbook, SHOTGUN LULLABIES, is available now from Aqueduct Press (Seattle, WA)! It is Volume 28 in their award-winning "Conversation Pieces Series." Here is a link to it on the Aqueduct Press website:Aqueduct Press is pleased to announce...  http://www.aqueductpress.com/books/ShotgunLullabies-Vol28.html And yes, that's a John Biggers painting on the cover!

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BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL 2009 PROGRAM PROGRAMMING AND VENUES SUBJECT TO CHANGE ALL EVENTS FREE Target Children’s Area (Borough Hall Plaza) The Target Children’s Area provides day-long readings and literary activities for children 2-9 10:00a.m. Troupe – Performs classic children’s books 10:30a.m. Mo Willems, Elephants Cannot Dance; Watch Me Throw the Ball! 11:00a.m. Alison

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A few years back I had the good fortune of being a guest of the incomparable Ms. Kadija George (Kadija Sesay) during a Dark Matter writing workshop and reading at the annual SPIT-LIT Festival.  Of all the places Kadija and the fine poets took me to explore, one of my favorites was the Africa Book Centre.  Established in 1989, they have a world class collection of books about and from Africa.  I

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With journals in hand and full of Obama & Earth Day fever, we went to DC last Spring to see the wonderful Mami Wata exhibit   at the National Museum of African Art.  This was my first visit to the museum and was really pleased.  The NMAFA make the most of the unique space it has available--you enter and then descend to see an impressive array of art from across the continent--and the staff is

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The multitalented mother of aesthetic funk, artist Xenobia Bailey, has a cool workshop tomorrow at the Arts Horizon LeRoy Neiman * Center. Check it out before your Valentine festivities begin! UTOPIA LAB CREATIVE WORKSHOP: "THE AESTHETIC OF FUNK"xenba.blogspot.comI hope you can make it! If you have any questions you can send me an email; xenba@googlegroups.com Sunday: February 14th 2:00pm -

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"Rivers" cosmogram by Houston Conwill at the Langston Hughes Atrium at the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture in Harlem, NY. Another cosmogram by the artist and poet Estella Conwill is located at the African Burial Ground National Monument in the Wall Street financial district.It's kind of mind-boggling to think about it, but we've had formal Black Studies Programs in public and

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THIS IS BEYOND JACKED UP! SUPPORT YOUR LIBRARIES, PEOPLE. Go to their public programs. Request comment cards when you do and share your ideas and feedback. Jot down letters to the directors (in NYC, you get a formal response back!), letting them know you exist and how you and your family use the librarie's resources. The Library needs a serious PR campaign, good grief.

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BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL 2009 PROGRAMPROGRAMMING AND VENUES SUBJECT TO CHANGEALL EVENTS FREETarget Children’s Area (Borough Hall Plaza)The Target Children’s Area provides day-long readings and literary activities for children 2-910:00a.m. Troupe – Performs classic children’s books10:30a.m. Mo Willems, Elephants Cannot Dance; Watch Me Throw the Ball!11:00a.m. Alison Josephs/

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You already know this, folk, but I'ma say it again. Love me some Arthur Rickydoc Flowers! Arthur and another fave writer, George Saunders, are up at Syracuse guiding new generations of wordsmiths. Arthur, a word wizard in a category all by himself and one of the few practicing Hoodoofolk in Higher Education, also blogs about being in and out of the woodshed, revising his novel, Rest for the

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Belladonna* Celebrates the Elders with readings and events guest-hosted by some of our favorite writers who've invited writers who influence and

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http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog....Well, I missed WisCon and I was totally bummed out, especially since I was a Tiptree Award juror this year (a very cool experience), but I'm glad to hear that folk had a rockin' good time despite the stomach bug goin' round. Here's a post from Nnedimma Okorafor-Mbachu on her novel, THE SHADOW SPEAKER being a Tiptree Honor Book (yay!).All Best,

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Nikky FinneyPoetry reviews are rare, and having one's work mentioned in a poetry review is even rarer still. I was delighted to see this recent bit of ink in the SAN ANTONIO CURRENT.4/9/2008ArtThe word in colorA poetry fan challenges John Hollander’s white mightAsian American Poetry: The Next Generation Victoria Chang, ed. University of Illinois Pres $19.95, 232 pagesThe Wind Shifts: New Latino

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I just returned from being a special guest at Camille Yarbrough's ANCESTOR HOUSE. The show aired live at 6 pm on MNN (Manhattan Neighborhood Network) Channel 34. Many thanks to co-editors Dr. Brenda Greene and Fred Beauford and Herb Boyd (BALDWIN'S HARLEM). We were gathered to discuss the publication of Greene and Beauford's recent collaboration, MEDITATIONS AND ASCENSIONS: Black Writers on

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The National Writers Union is the trade union for freelance and contract writers: journalists, book authors, business and technical writers, web content providers, and poets. With the combined strength of nearly 2,000 members in 16 chapters nationwide, and with the support of the United Automobile Workers (UAW), the Union works to defend the rights and improve the economic and working conditions

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Published by Medgar Evers College and Third World Press in Chicago, MEDITATIONS AND ASCENSIONS edited by Brenda M. Greene and Fred Beauford focuses on the literary panels held in Brooklyn at the 2006 National Black Writers Conference. I was honored to appear on the Speculative Fiction panel with Samuel R. Delany, Tananarive Due, and Walter Mosley. Our panel was moderated by Robert Reid-Pharr and

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Lupus Foundation of Americahttp://www.lupus.org/newsite/index.htmlGlobal Fund for Womenhttp://www.globalfundforwomen.org/cms/our-work/grantee-partners/Women for Women Internationalhttp://www.womenforwomen.org/WomenArts Network - Fund for Women Artistshttp://www.womenarts.org/network/

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Friend and "Slammingest" Poet Aya de Leon and the Applied Research Center are there right now, among many others. If you missed this year's conference, do check out the conference website for links on a broad coalition of Green activists across the nation.The ARC, based in Oakland, CA, also publishes ColorLines: the national magazine on race and politics. My short story, "Bender's Bow," is in

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Hey fine folks, I know it's been about fifty-five fifty-five years, but I wanted to jot down a quick notes about all the love and light that's been flowing through the Newark Public Library, down on 5 Washington Street.Just returned from leading a MARVELOUS REAL workshop with some interesting writers, visual artists, and educators who are creating some good work. The program was curated by the

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