Because direct and immediate action is love, and revolution, and beauty, and resistance, and ....
Because art is action all over this globe Because we are we are we are we are we are agentsloversalliessurvivorsstriversresisterssistersfightersradicalsfamily
Because nifong is not the glue that holds this case or this community togetherBecause we will not be silenced or confused in the face of white racist patriarchy and sexual violence...
beacause we need....Movement now...
If you want to sit and meditate silently in front of the Court House Sunday meet us there!Bring a flower, a poem, a candle, a stick of incense, a piece of art work and... let's collectively focus positive energy on healing our ourselves and our community.
This is not an overly choreographed event, just show up at the court house around 12 noon Sunday 1/14.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Thursday, January 04, 2007
in my mother's likeness
the slack hip and urban cheek
the kitchen that slicks neck easily
not her tree limb legs
twig like fingers
piano ear or cato skin
(because my daddy is the color of ocean's edge)
but eyes
oh the seeking eyes identical shimmering
glass in both our skulls
the kitchen that slicks neck easily
not her tree limb legs
twig like fingers
piano ear or cato skin
(because my daddy is the color of ocean's edge)
but eyes
oh the seeking eyes identical shimmering
glass in both our skulls
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Hocking a Wedding Ring Published at www.wombpoetry.com
Yo,
check out my moving and grooving lit life at www.wombpoetry.com.
Hocking a Wedding Ring Published in online journal for women poets!
love and light,
ebony golden,
betty's daughter literary press
check out my moving and grooving lit life at www.wombpoetry.com.
Hocking a Wedding Ring Published in online journal for women poets!
love and light,
ebony golden,
betty's daughter literary press
for harryette~~~~~ again!
for harryette~~~~
We collect things that matter. Trinkets. Love letters. Ideas that set earth's orbit. Sunrises and warm remembrances to smooth forehead-wrinkles and soften the grimace into a smile. We collect things like malleable dirt and fresh fruit beauty. A call. A call. To the new school poetics of fresh birth. A call. A call. To what once was and was never trash. Recycled gold I say. We answer recycled gold. Old wor(l)ds. New gold.
We collect things that matter. Trinkets. Love letters. Ideas that set earth's orbit. Sunrises and warm remembrances to smooth forehead-wrinkles and soften the grimace into a smile. We collect things like malleable dirt and fresh fruit beauty. A call. A call. To the new school poetics of fresh birth. A call. A call. To what once was and was never trash. Recycled gold I say. We answer recycled gold. Old wor(l)ds. New gold.
Ebony to Publishes Review of Recyclopedia in BIBR
Renewed Treasure: Recyclopedia in Review
By: Ebony Noelle Golden, MFA
Recyclopedia. Harryette Mullen.
St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 2006.
178 pp.
Price: 15.00 USA
18.95 Canada
Thinking thought to be a body wearing language as cloth-
ing or language a body of thought which is a soul or body
the clothing of a soul, she is veiled in silence. A veiled, un-
available body makes an available space.
-from trimmings
For hip readers who were, are, and will be in love with Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse &
Drudge. For the hydrating drink that is Harryette Mullen’s quintessential riff on gender,
language, geography, and legacy. For the poems re-gifted as lagniappes of light to enliven our
collective intellect; Harryette Mullen, Professor of English and African American Studies and
finalist for the National Book Award offers her new collection of previously published works in
Recyclopedia published by Gray Wolf Press. Mullen, dubbed “The Queen of Hip Hyperbole” by
Sandra Cisneros, reveals an intensely intricate and bitingly fresh approach to literary craft
which politicizes diction, exfoliates imagery, and reflects the brilliant glow which situates her in a
category poets, and writers alike, work ever so vigilantly to achieve. Mullen’s poems
deconstruct archetypal ideals of consumption, value, and economic class structure. She
writes,
“Pyramids are eroding monuments. Embalmed soup stocks
the recyclable soul adrift in its newspaper boat of double
coupons. Seconds decline in descent from number one, top
of the heap. So this is generic life, feeding from a dented
cant. Devoid of colored labels, the discounted irregulars.”
Long time Mullen enthusiasts and new readers can look forward to poems that spark critical
thought and conversation about local and global issues without heavily ladled didactic
overtures. Recyclopedia is elegantly spiced with imagistically rich verse, written in
short-lined stanzas, and concerned with historical, spiritual, and body narratives.
For example,
“bring money bring love
lucky floorwash seven
powers of Africa la mano
poderosa ayudame numeros suenos
…sister mystery listens
helps souls in misery
get to the square root
of evil and render in moot…”
This excerpt examines Yoruba spirituality and the cultural significance of the
conjure woman; but moreover, illustrates Mullen’s masterful and singular
approach to exploring Africana motif and symbology without clichéd
language and skin-deep imagery.
Harryette Mullen’s body of work, in general, and Recyclopedia, in
specific, demands readers to re-imagine and re-envision the possibilities of poetry. Additionally,
this collection urges readers to retire static assumptions about what creates readable, relevant,
and resonant poems. I highly recommend Mullen’s newest addition to the overpopulated
literary landscape for its quick wit, sharp intellect, and colorful approach to literary craft. Read
Recyclopedia and experience or re-acquaint yourself with one of contemporary poetry’s most
important treasures.
Author’s Biography
Ebony Noelle Golden, MFA, is a poet, performer, and educator currently teaching African American Literature, Composition and Creative Writing at North Carolina Central University and Louisburg College as a Visiting Instructor. She has self-published a chap book of poems titled the sweet smell of juju funk and is currently editing mama's hieroglyphics to be released in 2007. In the near future, Ebony plans to undergo doctoral studies in Performance and stage her multimedia choreopoem, What Aunt Sarah Says to Siffronia When Sweet Thing is Moon-Watching and Peaches is Dancing to the Wind. Ebony can be contacted via email at goldendharma@yahoo.com or www.goldendharma.blogspot.com.
By: Ebony Noelle Golden, MFA
Recyclopedia. Harryette Mullen.
St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 2006.
178 pp.
Price: 15.00 USA
18.95 Canada
Thinking thought to be a body wearing language as cloth-
ing or language a body of thought which is a soul or body
the clothing of a soul, she is veiled in silence. A veiled, un-
available body makes an available space.
-from trimmings
For hip readers who were, are, and will be in love with Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse &
Drudge. For the hydrating drink that is Harryette Mullen’s quintessential riff on gender,
language, geography, and legacy. For the poems re-gifted as lagniappes of light to enliven our
collective intellect; Harryette Mullen, Professor of English and African American Studies and
finalist for the National Book Award offers her new collection of previously published works in
Recyclopedia published by Gray Wolf Press. Mullen, dubbed “The Queen of Hip Hyperbole” by
Sandra Cisneros, reveals an intensely intricate and bitingly fresh approach to literary craft
which politicizes diction, exfoliates imagery, and reflects the brilliant glow which situates her in a
category poets, and writers alike, work ever so vigilantly to achieve. Mullen’s poems
deconstruct archetypal ideals of consumption, value, and economic class structure. She
writes,
“Pyramids are eroding monuments. Embalmed soup stocks
the recyclable soul adrift in its newspaper boat of double
coupons. Seconds decline in descent from number one, top
of the heap. So this is generic life, feeding from a dented
cant. Devoid of colored labels, the discounted irregulars.”
Long time Mullen enthusiasts and new readers can look forward to poems that spark critical
thought and conversation about local and global issues without heavily ladled didactic
overtures. Recyclopedia is elegantly spiced with imagistically rich verse, written in
short-lined stanzas, and concerned with historical, spiritual, and body narratives.
For example,
“bring money bring love
lucky floorwash seven
powers of Africa la mano
poderosa ayudame numeros suenos
…sister mystery listens
helps souls in misery
get to the square root
of evil and render in moot…”
This excerpt examines Yoruba spirituality and the cultural significance of the
conjure woman; but moreover, illustrates Mullen’s masterful and singular
approach to exploring Africana motif and symbology without clichéd
language and skin-deep imagery.
Harryette Mullen’s body of work, in general, and Recyclopedia, in
specific, demands readers to re-imagine and re-envision the possibilities of poetry. Additionally,
this collection urges readers to retire static assumptions about what creates readable, relevant,
and resonant poems. I highly recommend Mullen’s newest addition to the overpopulated
literary landscape for its quick wit, sharp intellect, and colorful approach to literary craft. Read
Recyclopedia and experience or re-acquaint yourself with one of contemporary poetry’s most
important treasures.
Author’s Biography
Ebony Noelle Golden, MFA, is a poet, performer, and educator currently teaching African American Literature, Composition and Creative Writing at North Carolina Central University and Louisburg College as a Visiting Instructor. She has self-published a chap book of poems titled the sweet smell of juju funk and is currently editing mama's hieroglyphics to be released in 2007. In the near future, Ebony plans to undergo doctoral studies in Performance and stage her multimedia choreopoem, What Aunt Sarah Says to Siffronia When Sweet Thing is Moon-Watching and Peaches is Dancing to the Wind. Ebony can be contacted via email at goldendharma@yahoo.com or www.goldendharma.blogspot.com.
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