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The Residency and Immersion
(PHOTO: Courtesy) Jaed Coffin grew up in Maine and has worked as a boxer and lobsterman before becoming a writer and Stonecoast MFA faculty member. Jaed Coffin’s goal is to aim for the big idea when...
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Curtis Crisler: Migration of a Latchkey Boy
(PHOTO: William Bryant Rozier) Curtis Crisler Curtis Crisler’s unnamed speaker is a griot of sorts. His distant kin, fleeing from Jim Crow and southern domestic terrorism, joins the 5 million African...
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Meet Robert Hookey, aka “The Hook”, aka the Chronicling Bellman
(PHOTO: Stock Image) Editor’s note: This is part one of an on-going series about successful bloggers and their habits. Read part two here and click here to read part three. There’s nothing typical...
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Arts Summit Revives SW Community
(PHOTO: Azeez Bakare) Australian artist MEGGS produced this mural that wraps around the walls and ceiling. There are no pews in this darkened sanctuary. Atop the booming pulpit, a DJ spins a sampled...
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Universal Children’s Day – No Age Limit on Making a Difference
(PHOTO: Samantha Paul) For her ninth birthday, Rachel Beckwith asked her family for donations to help bring clean water to people in poor countries. She died in a car crash before she could see her...
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Curtis Crisler’s New Book “…Out-Schools Every School of American Poetry”
Curtis L. Crisler’s new book, “This” Ameri-Can-ah (Cherry Castle Publishing, 2016) “out-schools every school of American poetry.” That’s according to Jericho Brown, American Book Award Winner....
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The Light Inside (Video)
Three months ago, I posted the poem, “The Light Inside,” which was inspired by my daughter, Jazmyn King. I wrote that poem while my wife and I awaited her arrival. She’s six weeks outside of the womb,...
View ArticlePOINT BLANK Year in Review
On Oct. 18, 2016, Silver Birch Press took a chance with me and published my latest poetry collection, POINT BLANK. A lot happened since then. For starters, I got a review in the Washington City Paper....
View ArticleThe Island of Smiles
This video is inspired by my poem, “The Island of Smiles,” which appears in my forthcoming chapbook.
View ArticleThis Viral Artist Is Creating Opportunities for Other Creatives
Derrick Weston Brown went viral with his poem, “We Can’t Have Nothing.” How viral did it go? It was all over the internet. Some inmates at San Quintin State Prison did a dramatic interpretation of it....
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