Jan 16, 2022 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
The poet Langston Hughes was a great inspiration to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Examples of their connection are expansive. In 1956, King recited Hughes’ poem “Mother to Son” from the pulpit to honor his wife Coretta, who was celebrating her first Mother’s Day. That...
Dec 21, 2021 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you....
Dec 15, 2021 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Poetry
bell hooks (Sept 25,1952-Dec 15,2021) It is poetry that changes everything. — from bell hooks’ Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood in love there are no closed doors each threshold an invitation to cross take hold take heart and enter here at this point...
Nov 24, 2021 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Poetry
BY W. S. MERWIN Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the...
Oct 26, 2021 | Current Ned Note, Horror
I found a thread on Reddit that asked this question: “What is the best horror story you can come up with in two sentences?” I posted the best ones I found, as well as one more scary tale I created on my own. See if you can figure out which one is mine! With Halloween...
Sep 20, 2021 | Current Ned Note, On Books, Reviews
New review of The Eagle Tree from South African writer Donvé Lee. When this tender complex story found me, I was steeped in pandemic misery, lamenting the suicidal trajectory humanity seems intent on following. The Eagle Tree, told in the voice of a fourteen-year-old...
