Category: Cultural Arts
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African-American Music Links Cultural Legacies around the Globe (part 1 of 3)
Following the death of Michael Jackson during Black Music Month 2009 a crowd gathers and dances outside the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York. (photo by Getty Images) The basic idea underlying the…
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A Special World Book Day Present – Bright Skylark Literary Productions
Cover of forthcoming title Journey through the Power of Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Out of Poetry. “Sometimes the words came like ecstatic utterances, sometimes like songs whispered from another time, like actual angelic possessions, or like mental files that had been downloaded while I slept and then printed via…
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3 Poems for Poem in Your Pocket Day: Number 1
(Classic first-edition cover for I Made My Boy Out of Poetry featuring art by Gustave Blache III) “Dedicated artists, innovators, and stewards of our language, they tell us not only who we are, but also who we can become. They distill our emotions, clarify our thoughts, and…