Kola articles from January 2001

Kola archives from January 2001

Cavalier. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Cavalier George Elliot Clarke Let pacifying snow suffocate Parliament! I'll batter, break, and ruin my bones on yours, To collapse with this raw, outrageous love Omitted from polite dictionaries: Once more my sweet in your...

Africadian Petition (1792). (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Africadian Petition (1792) George Elliot Clarke The rains is now set in. The times is not as it was. We is bearing Hardships long as pines-- All white whips which you Doing to us here since we beenO And loving. Honest...

Let's Do It. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Let's Do It Carlyle N. Matthew What's the rush to sell a billion more shoes you take their money they take your woes same people hungry can't eat rubber soles poor souls starving for an image like yours "Don't do it!" ...

Great Hunter 'Spiritual Prey' called Predator. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Great Hunter 'Spiritual Prey' called Predator Carlyle N. Matthew This is no game - What a shame Dichotomy of compassion/barbarism and love-filled anger/humanism, flip flopping, duality wording, calling destruction by another...

Black Woman. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Black Woman Carlye N. Matthew Black woman Singing, Gesticulating, Rhythmically stabbing the air with pointed hands; You sway to the music's fervent beat. Independent, shy you were Fierce, independent...

Epitaph. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Epitaph (Amadou Diallo) Kaie Kellough Four white cops shot Forty-one times. Twenty-four Not Guilty verdicts echoed gavel blows NDG moaned. Sharpton calmed a rallying crowd And Time, March, reported: "This will...

Malcolm Fergusson. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Malcolm Fergusson Kaie Kellough Malcolm Fergusson, March second Copping heroin, shot dead By officers Puerto Rican. Rule out racism. Said Giuliani: "That dead man is guilty." Kaie Kellough is a Montreal writer. He...

Dedications. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Dedications Kaie Kellough Langston Hughes Your blues verse runs Deep as dark rum Drunk pure. It shines. The moon drips honey on another bitter day. Kaie Kellough is a Montreal writer. He writes short fiction and...

Kamau Brathwaite. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Kamau Brathwaite In you rhythm is form cut into time life written in the lines of the face - In you, rhythm is round squared looped to a wrist chained to the moon circuiting the universe in you

Sonny Boy Williamson. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Sonny Boy Williamson Music? A mountain range a rolling plain a pain swelling like a melody.

Dizzy Gillspie. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Dizzy Gillspie A hard plum note blown from the barrel of a trumpet.

Quo Vadis. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Quo Vadis Clarence S. Bayne I think! Therefore I am. Why? I breathe! I feel the Sun! See its light! Therefore I am aware, alive! I know I am forlorn, left a lone tracker wandering, lost in space, stretched by slow time whose...

Clague's Pendulum Over Tulum No. 1. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Clague's Pendulum Over Tulum No. 1 Clarence S. Bayne The moving Eye In a pendulum's swing Scans the ruins Of a civilization Still sensed at Tulum In ageless Time-worn walls Of pyramiding steps Monuments entombing screams...

Negrophobia. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Negrophobia Abdoulaye Gueye She complains of noise and stench to neighbors Because I Black man 'move in district' She raises a pitbull on red meat Because I Black man 'make filthy neighborhood' She attends a shooting range...

My Brother. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... My Brother Abdoulaye Gueye My zealous brother with the dogface standin' at their store entrance Checks my bag for stolen items My zealous brother a blue uniform at the corner of their street Watches my allees and venues and my...

Black Harlem. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... Black Harlem Abdoulaye Gueye I saw a sixteen-year-old black girl pushing a carriage in which a baby wailed. "Girl, shouldn't you put that kid at its mother's bosom to be comforted?" I asked her. "I'de be damned...

Kentucky Fried to Stay. (Poetry).(Poem)
January 1, 2001... KENTUCKY FRIED TO STAY Michelle la Flamme (On visiting Yellowknife in the N.W.T. in December of 1997 and being observant) They say Colonel Saunders killed a man. I witnessed him swallow a village in an afternoon! Cold,...

Rainbow Country: A one-act play. (Drama).(Play)
January 1, 2001... THE CHARACTERS ELSIE AMBLETON a woman of thirty years LOTTIE DEAR a woman of forty-five years KANAKA FAIRBANK a man of fifty years HORNER PRICE a man of forty years MATILDA THORPE a woman...

A Black Canadian Bibliography. (Drama).
January 1, 2001... A Black Canadian Bibliography, by Flora(Blizzard) Francis with a foreword by Dr. Rita M. Cox. Ottawa, Ontario: Pan-African Publications , 2000, PP. 19.95$ The author claims that to date " there has not been a bibliography that combines the...

News.
January 1, 2001... The College of WILLIAM & MARY OFFICE OF UNIVERSITY RELATIONS P.O. Box 8795 Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795 757/221-2630, Fax 757/221-1021 April 24, 2000 Media Contact: Amy Ruth (757) 221-2628 Public...