[I never marked the first anniversary of HungryBlues back in March, but I think that gives me occasional license to rerun posts that are more than a year old. What follows is a slightly shortened version my post from this time (on the Jewish calendar) last year. I think I have some more readers since [...]
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Last Week Was An Interesting Week
Two Fridays ago (4/8), my mother called to tell me she had just talked with a retired journalist, named Jeff Prugh. Apparently Jeff had come across my posts on the Roosevelt Tatum story, and he wanted to talk with me. Between my father’s name and the mentions of Delmar, NY in the Tatum series (I [...]
New Poetry Chapbook: We All Sell The Shadow, by Jonathan David Jackson
My dear and talented friend Jonathan has just published a chapbook of his poems. Jonathan has a website where you find an announcement of the chapbook, two sample poems, and other related items. [Update 7/9/05: Jonathan David Jackson's website is down; links to it removed for now.] Jonathan and I attended the Johns Hopkins Writing [...]
Hungry Blues III
Dad had a number of stories like this one, lessons in being on the outside. The most developed one, and the most fully fictionalized, is “Lonesome Blues” , the story I posted in September, named after the song by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Fives . In “Lonesome Blues,” the high school years of a suicide jazz musician, Mo Bartel, closely mirror my father’s.
That’s Some Poem
Before today I didn’t even know who Etheridge Knight was—which is embarrassing to say as a former doctoral candidate in English and American Literature. Yet another reason to be glad for the blogosphere. I was zipping through my rss feeds this morning and saw one of my newest favorites, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, had [...]
Post-MLK Day Links
Hawaiians, blacks unite at King parade Vicki Viotti The queen’s portrait hung next to that of a King. In this case, the pair were separated by time and space — though they both labored peacefully for the rights of their people, said Mel Kalahiki. "We have the same dream," said Kalahiki, who helps organize the [...]
We Who Believe In Freedom . . .
We have an ongoing problem with racism and elections that has been amplified by recent technological developments. Presuming we remove the technological impediments to fair elections, I don’t foresee substantive improvement in African American access to voting without a broad based administrative response to racist machinations at the polls. We will establish more laws and improve technology to support the intent of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but the basic racist framework will remain intact.
Blogging off subject, though not really
This is meant as a preface to blogging Jeanne D’arc’s thoroughly great “Politics and Poetry” over at Body and Soul. But now I don’t know why I started this thinking that I’m blogging off subject. That I identify so strongly with Jeanne’s piece has everything to do with the things I’m writing about my father. “Politics and Poetry” is a gorgeous expression of the sort of realistic idealism about America that motivated my father to do the work that he did.
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