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Photo by Baro on Pexels.com I was annoyed when an audience member asked singer Cecile McLorin Salvant to “sing the standards” after she’d presented an absorbing story cycle through song replete with visual art to an audience at SFJAZZ last week. She was sharing work from her most recent album, Melusine, which follows an ancient folkloric story of love, trust,…
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Photo by Baro on Pexels.com I’ll be reading old and new work this coming Saturday, April 1 at Silver Tongue Saturdays in Auburn.
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Photo by Baro on Pexels.com My most influential teacher, Mr. Grebanier
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Photo by Baro on Pexels.com My publisher, Nomadic Press, has reached its sunset. But you can still purchase copies of my book, How it Happens.
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Photo by Baro on Pexels.com My poem “Burn” has been published in the January/February 2023 issue of West Trestle Review. A big thank you to Patricia Caspers, Editor in Chief and to the phenomenal writers and artists whose work appears alongside mine.
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Photo by Baro on Pexels.com I went to the de Young Museum and immersed myself in nearly 50 years of Faith Ringgold’s art. I was inspired by the breadth and depth of Ms. Ringgold’s art and the way that the exhibit shows how her art changed in focus, style, and medium over time and how the artist’s focus changed over…
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Photo by Baro on Pexels.com One evening as I was scanning Netflix to see if there was something I wanted to watch, I noticed the trending list and I saw that the film Purple Hearts was listed at #7. I remembered receiving a release announcement via email what seemed like a month prior from Netflix. I was surprised to see…
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Photo by Baro on Pexels.com Our lives are so much more than you could possibly imagine. Voices of Rebirth: A Reading List on Being Indigenous in America
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Photo by Baro on Pexels.com No, I don’t mean that my teenager is grounded for bad or unsafe behavior. Although, I do think that is a strategy, if done well, that can be helpful in guiding an adolescent to grow into greater maturity. I mean that I have been practicing grounding techniques off and on today, in the midst of…
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Photo by Baro on Pexels.com I’ve been thinking about writing on my daily walks. I’ve been more consistently involved in the process of writing personal narrative over the past year and a half. But in reality, I’ve been working on this project for many years. I was grateful to be able to make a lot of headway on it at…
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Joyce E. Young 