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#throwbackthursday: A Poets’ Lunch, April 2003

May 17, 2018

A little over fifteen years ago, I was working at NewSouth Books and had pushed for the company to do a full-length collection of poems…
Disrupters & Interlopers: Golden Frinks

May 16, 2018

Golden Frinks was a Civil Rights activist, known as “the Great Agitator.” He was born in 1920 in South Carolina, moved to North Carolina as…
At the Flimp Festival, May 5

May 4, 2018

Tomorrow, I will be with my Creative Writing students at our display table at the Flimp Festival, which is a partnership of our high school,…
#throwbackthursday: SPLC Teaching Tolerance Videos, 2008

May 3, 2018

Ten years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance program made a series of short videos that featured classroom teachers talking about issues related…