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Article
Jan.18.2011
The National African American Art Examiner Column by Aberjhani
NOTE: Original article updated to reflect events that have already happened.
"I want to be able to touch every part of our community with poetry." --Clinton D. Powell, teacher, actor, director, mentor, beloved poet
The city of Savannah, Georgia, lost one of its strongest advocates for the creative arts with the death of 42-year-old poet and...
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Article
Mar.09.2010
A Red Room Original
Amiri Geuka Farris seems able to apply his considerable artistic skills to virtually any subject and evoke from it some compelling never-before-seen nuance or dazzling quality. This brilliant aspect of the artist’s work was apparent enough in the 38”x40” canvases titled “Elton John Red Piano,” “Charles Barkley Decepticons,” and “Sara Bareilles Love Songs”...
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Nov.07.2009
Original Online Review Summer 2008
Invisible Man, Shadow and Act, and Going to the Territory, all books by that quintessential twentieth century literary artist Ralph Waldo Ellison, remain towering masterworks of American literature for their penetrating explorations of racial identity, cultural complexity, and historical consequences in the United States. With Senator Barack Obama's historic bid...
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Poem
Nov.04.2009
The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009
"The air is filled with strangely human birds."--Guillaume Apollinaire, from The New Spirit and the Poets
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Your wife calls. Asks me to take your keys, make you stay here tonight. She refuses your refusal to leave the world to its chosen pains.
Long ago I stopped trying to convince you that your hands are not roadside bombs. Your tears...
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Poem
Nov.04.2009
The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009
You spoke... and the laws of physics rebelled.
Blessings upon the heart, you lavishly bestowed
like songs of morning glories perfuming the dawn.
You spoke and glaciers of hidden memories melted.
My addiction to sorrow, you patiently soothed
with sweet oils of wisdom and healing herbs of faith.
An island of lost identity broke the ocean...
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Poem
Sep.24.2009
The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009
The black and white photo shows you seatedin a wooden chair on the porch of a cabinbuilt likely by slaves, later inhabited by you:
Black American Woman Elsie Mary Bell Griffin.
One side of the image is shadowedlike the memories, the love, and perseverancethat shape your face into a hymn of quiet dignity.
The planks of the cabin's wall are straight...
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Poem
Aug.31.2009
Songs of the Angelic Gaze
'Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001' was originally written to commemorate the 6th anniversary of 9/11 and is now presented at Red Room in 2009 to commemorate the 8th.
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B.C.: With his brother's blood wet on his hands,Cain ran vomiting future sorrows of man.
Petals of gold cloudswirled bright eternal letterstoo soon...
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Article
Jun.06.2009
Amazon Review
One of the most frequently uttered phrases in the United States during the month of February, Black History Month, is the United Negro Scholarship Fund's slogan: "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." While reading Toni Morrison's powerful nonfiction collection, What Moves at the Margin, I found myself considering the opposite of that slogan: an...
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Article
May.15.2009
An Aberjhani Red Room Original
As a writer, it's difficult not to marvel at the skillful way author Carlos Ruiz Zafón blends mystery, romance, and unapologetic bibliophilic passion to create his celebrated novel, The Shadow of the Wind. As a reader, it's all but impossible to avoid falling in love with the streams of lyrical prose that ferry your attention from the first page to the last.
It...
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Column
Apr.07.2009
Savannah Literary Journal
Brother Bruce-
Peace. I guess it's been a while and I'm sure many things have transpired since we last communicated in February. One thing I hope has happened is that you've gotten some positive feedback from Beacon Press regarding the initial query on your novel. That kind of thing usually takes anywhere from 2 months to a year or more, depending who gets...
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The process of writing evolves one's consciousness and transforms the aspiring writer into an individual that he or she never fully imagined becoming. ”
—Gale Contemporary Authors
About *
A native of Savannah, Georgia (USA) Aberjhani is a winner of the Thomas Jefferson Award for his journalism, the Choice Academic Title and Best History Book Awards for his historical writings, the Creative Loafing Critic’s Pick Best Savannah Author Award for...
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