Author Dempsey Video Interview
Our Man from Pakistan Karim Khan/Ernest Dempsey talks about his book The Blue Fairy and other Tales of Transcendence in this short video interview with Victor Volkman.
Our Man from Pakistan Karim Khan/Ernest Dempsey talks about his book The Blue Fairy and other Tales of Transcendence in this short video interview with Victor Volkman.
Anthology Call for Submissions Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter’s Memories of Mother Editors: Kate Farrell & Lynn Henriksen This groundbreaking anthology, to be released October 2011, will include 25 true and compelling stories about mother (or mother figures) that express the wisdom shared or learned from a particular experience. We are looking for personal…
January 11-March 15, 2010 Vaughn Cultural Center 3701 Grandel Square St. Louis, MO 63108 The opening for the Zuka Arts Guild exhibit at St. Louis’ Vaughn Cultural Center left us deeply satisfied. “The Zuka Arts Guild seeks to promote knowledge of and participation in the visual arts through exhibitions, teaching programs, workshops, seminars and selected…
Poem in Your Pocket Day. Carry a poem to share with co-workers, family, and friends on April 29, 2010. Here’s Ernie Wormwood’s choice.–JGR ____________ If You Could Write One Great Poem What Would You Want It To Be About by Robert Pinsky (Asked of four student poets at the Illinois Schools for the Deaf and…
Ron Gregory organized a marvelous evening. I, as usual in polarized racial St. Louis (goodness!), was pretty much the only white folk there. But, luckily, I feel comfortable. After five years in Africa surrounded by Africans, this is no novelty. Came with a friend. Sat at mostly an all-woman table…really nice woman. Mostly boomers. For…
My mother’s father farmed pigs. Courtney Johnston loved his grandkids. As we ran to him, he’d welcome us in his arms with the endearment: “My little runts!” You have to know that “the runt” is the littlest pig of the litter. And the youngest grandchild was ever his “runt.” What we do shapes our language….
Kwei Quartye’s “Wife of the Gods: An inspector Darko Dawson Mystery” further expands the mystery genre on Africa soil…just as Alexander McCall Smith’s “Number 1 Ladies Detective Society” did. Only this one is written by a Ghanaian about Ghana.