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A Place Called Hitch Village and the Federal Economic Stimulus Package

Artist drawing of Hitch Village, courtesy of Savannah Morning News, circa 1957. As a home to more than 200 families, Robert M. Hitch Village is the largest government housing project in Savannah, Georgia, and just happens to be the place where this particular author… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on April 13, 2009 at 3:47pm — No Comments

My Weekend with Two Poets

Those of us––whether writers, editors, or production personnel––who long ago cast our professional lot with the publishing industry, know that it can be as volatile and unpredictable as any other. Unless you are sitting on a stack of raving reviews for a bestseller (or at least a moderate seller) on its way to a tenth printing and adaptation to a major film, the crucial motivation to stick to one’s literary guns can sometimes simply vanish and leave you floundering for reasons and means to carry… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on January 27, 2009 at 2:17pm — No Comments

Slavingitus: A Degenerative Disease That Causes Blacks To Show Signs of a Slave Mentality

January 3, 2008 Slavingitus: A Degenerative Disease That Causes Blacks To Show Signs of a Slave Mentality by Alberta Parish Slavingitus, a degenerative mental disorder commonly affecting only Black Americans, is also an airborne disease that causes only Black Americans to have an acute slave mentality. This disease, although affecting Black Americans all across the United States, has a thousand more cases among blacks that live in the Southeastern part of the United States. However, the highes… Continue

Added by Alberta Parish on January 3, 2009 at 8:29pm — No Comments

Happy Holidays and all that jazz.

Ho, Ho, Ho and a Merry Christmas to all! Some folks seem to cringe with what is now considered the PC Happy Holidays. The fact is though; the term isn't a new one. In fact, I start using it before Thanksgiving. Even if you are a strict "traditionalist" of the Christian flavor in the… Continue

Added by Carrie Ann Cook on December 21, 2008 at 12:43pm — No Comments

Agginitus: Number One Fatal Disease Killing African Americans

December 7, 2008 AGGINITUS: Number One Fatal Disease Killing African Americans Today, a new disease known as Agginitus is killing more African Americans than HIV, diabetes, strokes, and heart disease combined. This new disease does not discriminate in age, sex, religion or ideology. It is highly unmerciful, even to African American infants and toddlers. Unfortunately, this disease is only airborne, which makes it ten times more likely to contract only over a short period of time. Now, the ter… Continue

Added by Alberta Parish on December 7, 2008 at 6:00pm — No Comments

PWP Announces 9/15 Release of GRANDPA'S WINE: Poems by Gil Fagiani

GRANDPA'S WINE

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Added by Roxanne Hoffman (Poets Wear Prada) on September 15, 2008 at 10:00pm — No Comments

"ELEMENTAL" Artist Makes Museum History

(Savannah, Georgia, USA)--Acclaimed artist Luther E. Vann became the first Savannah-born African-American artist to have a one-man exhibit at the Telfair Museum’s Jepson Center for the Arts when his show opened there April 16, 2008. On May 29, the Jepson Center will… Continue

Added by Author-Poet Aberjhani on May 21, 2008 at 1:05pm — No Comments