Black History Month Series (IV)

Removed for publication in MoJo! Issue # 2 (my online journal).  Check Publications page.

Black History Month Series (II)

Q: What does it mean, really, to be a multicultural writer?
A: I write as I live, through all of my valued private and public traditions and experiences…as an American. There’s no pie chart for my cultural percentages, and 9 times out of 10, the Black part is not open for discussion.
Blackness is a [...]

Black History Month Series (I)

In honor of Black History Month and the impending publication of my first collection of poems, which are autobiographical, I will be posting a series of personal essays.
Q: What does it mean to be Black, and multicultural, and a woman writing into the 21st century?
A: It’s a race, class, gender tale of [...]

Prose Poems and Flash Memoir

You decide which is which:

When Dearly Departed

     Why the heck were most of my aunts single and kidless? Simple. Aunt Stella–living happily in the sticks with her thirteen cats, root cellar, famous rhubard pies, old stereo with an automatic arm working through a stack of 78’s–knew the score. You have to marry a big [...]