Tag Archives: Alice Walker

ON THIS DAY: February 9, 2018

Posted on February 9, 2018 by

February 9th is Bagel Day Pizza Day No One Eats Alone Day * Read in the Bathtub Day ____________________________________________ MORE!  Alice Walker, Satchel Paige and Bernard Harris, click

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Word Cloud: DREAM

Posted on February 2, 2018 by

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD February is Black History Month in the United States. When Martin Luther King Jr. made his famous speech, “I Have a Dream,” in 1963, he wasn’t the first African-American to talk about a dream for a … Continue reading →

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Poems for National Black Poetry Day

Posted on October 17, 2017 by

_____________________________________________ cutting greens by Lucille Clifton curling them around i hold their bodies in obscene embrace thinking of everything but kinship. collards and kale strain against each strange other away from my kissmaking hand and the iron bedpot. the pot … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: February 9, 2017

Posted on February 9, 2017 by

February 9th is Bagel Day Pizza Day Safer Internet Day Toothache Day Read in the Bathtub Day ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Natsume Sōseki, Brendan Behan and Alice Walker, click

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WORD CLOUD: VISION

Posted on June 24, 2016 by

by Nona Blyth Cloud Alice Walker (1944 – ) is famous for her novels, especially her third novel, The Color Purple. Since it was first published in 1982, The Color Purple earned the National Book Award  for Fiction and the Pulitzer Prize … Continue reading →

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As For Poets

Posted on June 18, 2016 by

As For Poets by Gary Snyder As for poets The Earth Poets Who write small poems, Need help from no man. The Air Poets Play out the swiftest gales And sometimes loll in the eddies. Poem after poem, Curling back … Continue reading →

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