Feb 26, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Black History Month – February by Audre Lorde Moon marked and touched by sun my magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave my shape behind. I seek no favor untouched by blood unrelenting as the curse of love permanent as my errors or my...
Feb 23, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
— Read my books at Village Books — Village Books in Bellingham is an amazing home for books and literature in the Pacific Northwest. It’s also a place where I’ve built many fond memories and spent many wonderful afternoons. In the early 1990s,...
Feb 18, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing
published on Toni Morrison’s birthday: February 18, 1931 I’ve been pondering writing a new novel that illuminates a horrific period in my family’s heritage. As I re-read Toni Morrison’s Beloved, it became clear to me that her techniques of emotional withholding...
Feb 15, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Black History Month: February won’t you celebrate with me Lucille Clifton, 1936 – 2010 won’t you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up...
Feb 11, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS Find my books at Powell’s In 1990, I was new to the Pacific Northwest. Even in the hinterlands of Spokane though, where I was an undergraduate, rumors of a city of books had filtered out. So on the first Oregon roadtrip with my...
Feb 10, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Black History Month: February For My People Margaret Walker For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly: their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees, praying their prayers nightly to an unknown god, bending their knees humbly to...
