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Literature made its mark in ’09…Giving me hope for 2010

by Toya BryantJanuary 7, 2010

2009 was a great year for African-American Literature because it made a distinct mark upon the publishing world. MahoganyBooks itself was featured in the controversial December 2009 issue of Publishers Weekly in a feature on African-American publishing. Co-founder R. Lark Young commented on how MahoganyBooks has worked to bridge the gap between writers and readers [...]

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Give ‘Em the Ol’ Razzle Dazzle

by Toya BryantDecember 7, 2009

I never fully understood what this song “Give ‘em the ol’ Razzle Dazzle” from the musical Chicago was about until recently. Here are some of the lyrics:
Give ‘em the old razzle dazzle
Razzle Dazzle ‘em
Give ‘em an act with lots of flash in it
And the reaction will be passionate
Give ‘em the old hocus pocus
Bead and feather [...]

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Visiting Day

by Toya BryantNovember 25, 2009

Sharon stared at the blank page. What would she write? Her mind was as blank as the piece of paper before her. She gazed out the window. The sunlight taunted her by shining like a spotlight on the place where she held her pen. Her lack of thought was interrupted by the sound of chains [...]

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Cheating with Punctuation

by Evelyn N. AlfredNovember 25, 2009

I’m having a love affair (with Parenthesis)
It’s pissing off Ellipses…
but I don’t care
because sometimes
I have to add just a little bit more
instead of leaving things out.
I’ll drop both of them — Parenthesis and Ellipses — when Dashes
returns my text message.
Evelyn

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Great…I’m Competing with Jada Pinket-Smith

by Toya BryantNovember 6, 2009

I am happily plugging away working on my book and I am starting to see my character’s life take shape. As I mentioned in my previous post my character Ana has become more than mere words on a page, but a living and breathing person and I am enjoying telling her story. I am even [...]

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The Critical Experiment

by Melanie HendersonNovember 4, 2009

When folk talk about or examine the work of Black poets, the form often gets tagged as experimental. I know this quality, this characteristic to be a critical part of a Black aesthetic. The creation, the innovation, the constant changing movement in how our words interact, vary and expand comprehensions, sound on, inside, over, and [...]

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“I’m in Love! …With my character”

by Toya BryantOctober 12, 2009

So far writing my book is going along very well considering I had a bit of a detour because of personal issues that seemed to spring up as soon as I began writing it. But now, all seems to going very smoothly. So smoothly in fact that my character seems to be living her life [...]

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“Two Roads” a short story by Toya Bryant

by Toya BryantOctober 7, 2009

Marcus Everett fidgeted with his tie as he stood before the mirror. “Loop it right, under, then over, ah! I can never get this right,” he said to himself. He struggled to remember how his father taught him to tie it. After several tries he was finally successful. He eyed his reflection.
“Not bad,” he said [...]

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To a Bourgeois Sister, an experiment in Line Endings

by Melanie HendersonSeptember 21, 2009

So I’ve been reading The Art of the Poetic Line by James Logenbach. I appreciate Logenbach’s discussion of the line break vs. line end and do agree that when a line ends, it doesn’t necessarily break; the syntax may continue. Line break implies a definitive end, a stop. But, all lines of [...]

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Gifts My Mother Gave Me (By Way of Introduction)

by Maxwell ReddickSeptember 16, 2009

The first gift I remember my mother ever giving me was a book. But I do not remember when I began reading. I do not even recall being taught to read. I can only recall that as far back as my consciousness reaches, books were an important part of my life; books were my best [...]

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Literature made its mark in ’09…Giving me hope for 2010

Give ‘Em the Ol’ Razzle Dazzle

Visiting Day

Cheating with Punctuation

Great…I’m Competing with Jada Pinket-Smith

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To a Bourgeois Sister, an experiment in Line Endings

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