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Imamu
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Imamu
After reading Is Always Be readers have asked if I knew Amiri Baraka. I indeed was a friend and associate of Baraka. I was introduced to his writing in undergraduate school in the early nineteen-seventies at a historically black university known as Alabama A & M University, not only in the classroom but in street performances of his poetry on campus....
Wednesday 22nd January 2014 7:03 pm
Reclaimed Names
photo credit: Maury Landsman
Reclaimed Names
A running epigraph of names
Cumulus
We fictionalize ourselves to actualize ourselves
Isabella Baumfree became Sojourner Truth
Ras Taf(f)ari Makonnen became Emperor Haile Sellassie
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna became Che Guevara
Dairies can’t hold secrets any better
Than siblings or friends but
We writ...
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