Noctuary: a record of what passes in the night

I vividly remember getting upset with a friend who was relentlessly teasing me about being from the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood in Balt...

I still dream of Baltimore. Perhaps its strange for me to think that after only four years away I would stop seeing the city I grew up in ...

Many thanks to John for asking me to be part of this "tour," started by Rutgers-Newark Graduate School students   Serena Lin  an...

One sure way to get people talking, or upset - or both - is to create a list. Mused magazine closed out National Poetry Month with  "...

The great Black Gay poet Essex Hemphill (1957-1995) would sign his letters, "Take care of your blessings." When asked what he mean...

Eleanor Roosevelt holding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places...

It never rains, but sometimes it pours: I'll be reading/appearing in four cities (and four states) in the next few weeks in support ...