Poet in Exile
While operating within a lifelong lyrical odyssey, his journey to build “roads of odes” (22), Sterling Plumpp checks in with his new...
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Sep 302 min read
Postcards
I feel some type of way about certain kinds of electioneering. First off, they are using my first name, which I rarely use and never...
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KG1
Aug 223 min read
Weird Discourse
As Republicans and Democrats agree, this election discourse is weird. For one, Republican pundits are shook. They know it’s impossible to...
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KG1
Aug 183 min read
Kamala
I bet that Kamala Harris makes it through the storms of definitions and labels and arrives safely in the White House. Political enemies...
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KG1
Jul 122 min read
Semple Analysis
“Glad to be out for convo and the coldest beer,” exclaimed Semple Jenkins, seated next to Boyd at their favorite bar. “Heat wave had me...
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KG1
May 192 min read
B6 and the Tradition
By now, most media followers have heard about how the house was set afire, that is, the House Oversight Committee. Convened to discuss a...
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KG1
May 182 min read
Golf and Race
Scottie Scheffler was arrested in Louisville for disobeying a detective’s traffic command and dragging him 30 feet, causing injuries....
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KG1
Apr 253 min read
Creative Tradition
When my students and I read Sing, Unburied, Sing, we were aware that author Jesmyn Ward had Toni Morrison’s Beloved (which one or two...
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KG1
Mar 302 min read
Check the Action
The success of the excellent movie American Fiction has brought renewed attention to Percival Everett’s Erasure, the 2001 novel on which...
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KG1
Feb 202 min read
Hold Everything
When I saw a teenage Beyoncé play the lead in Carmen: A Hip Hopera, which was made for MTV, I figured there was no limit to how big a...
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KG1
Feb 52 min read
Fresh Fresh
As I turned back into the Language Lane, I was reminded of the continual vibrancy of African American Language when I was watching the...
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KG1
Oct 14, 20233 min read
Might Say
Unless it’s going to be all war all the time in the land of old Palestine, a political solution must be sought. That a viable one to...
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KG1
Sep 16, 20234 min read
Champions
Reflecting on the World Athletics Championships recently concluded in Budapest, I find that I enjoyed a few of the language performances...
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KG1
Aug 19, 20232 min read
Scary or Not?
I have been off the block too long. I admit to being confused when I saw that the boxer Shakur Stevenson called out fellow boxer Vasiliy...
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KG1
Aug 19, 20232 min read
Semple Soliloquy on Montgomery
The fuss fading over the Brawl in Montgomery. The rap song been made by Gmac Cash. Jokes told. Names handed out to the Alabama Avengers...
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KG1
Jul 21, 20232 min read
Political No-Brainer?
Today, Chris Wallace reminded me why, besides the Trump fetish they pretend not to have, I watch CNN less and less these days. While...
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KG1
Jul 3, 20232 min read
Deep Democracy
After Cornel West announced his quest to run for president as the Green Party nominee, he mentioned in several interviews the idea of...
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KG1
Jun 1, 20232 min read
Traffic Stop Language
Eugenia Rho and her research colleagues have demonstrated in a recent study that the verbal approach of officers during vehicle stops of...
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KG1
May 21, 20233 min read
Always Another
At times, you have been asked which prior literary scene you would want to visit. Some expect you to say the Harlem Renaissance, a...
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KG1
May 15, 20232 min read
Brussels
Back in 1974, May 23 to be exact, I translated Pablo Neruda’s “Bruselas,” or “Brussels.” Of all that I’ve done, of all that I’ve lost, Of...
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