Category: literature
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Text and Meaning in Elemental The Power of Illuminated Love (part 1 of 3)
Angles of Ascents Anthology featuring the works of contemporary poets. (Cover image features poets Nikki Giovanni and the late Amiri Baraka) Success for the creatively-inclined individual can be defined in many ways. Certainly there are those who necessarily measure their triumphs in terms of monetary gains. There are others for…
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Creative Flexibility and Annihilated Lives (essay with poem)
“The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence…”~Toni Morrison, 1993 Nobel Lecture in Literature (This segment of Creative Flexibility and Annihilated Lives is…
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The Saving Grace of an Old School Strategy and Impulse
“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.” Author Salman Rushdie as formerly featured at Red Room. (photo graphic courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine) A lot of hearts passionate about reading, writing, publishing, and literary culture in general…
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The Year of James Baldwin Now in Full Classic Literary Swing (part 1)
Author James Baldwin in St. Paul de Vence, France, 1976. (photograph by Dmitri Kasterine) “It has always been much easier (because it has always seemed much safer) to give a name to the evil without than to locate the terror within. And yet, the terror within is far…
Bridge of Silver Wings 2025 
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