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...
Feb 9, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes
A reader on the crowd-sourcing platform Quora asked a question about how to deepen their reading practices and read beyond just mere plot. Here’s a post I made in reply that provided some hints and strategies for deepening one’s reading practice and...
Feb 5, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Find my books at Auntie’s Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS I moved from California to the wilds of Spokane Washington for my undergraduate degree. Honestly, I think it was the farthest I could get from home and still remain in the same time zone. It was my first...
Feb 5, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Black History Month: February Middle Passage Robert Hayden I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the dying; horror the corposant and compass rose. Middle Passage: voyage...
Feb 1, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Poetry
Claudia Castro Luna becomes Washington’s next poet laureate on February 1, 2018. She was the Seattle Civic Poet from 2015-2017. Her new book Killing Marias: A Poem for Multiple Voices is now available. You can follow her on Twitter at @ClaudiaC_L Lyric for a day like...
Jan 28, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Black History Month: February Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of...
