Kola articles from September 1999

Kola archives from September 1999

Editorial.
September 22, 1999... This issue of KOLA is my last as the editor. Associate editor Horace 1. Goddard will be the new editor. My decision to play a less active role with KOLA is due to the constraints of other commitments and responsibilities. The experience as...

A vision of healing and spiritual well-being for African Canadian communities.
September 22, 1999... In this paper, my overriding concern is the need for healing and spiritual well-being for us as strangers in a strange land. I will touch on issues of identity, collective trauma, rage, violence, and gender relations. At the end I will offer...

Tribute to a twentieth century black Canadian writer: The Legacy of Lorris Elliott.(Obituary)
September 22, 1999... Lorris I. Elliott was one of Canada's well-known Black writers. He died quietly last summer (1999), after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. In his passing he left a legacy from which black artists, educators and students may understand...

The Hand-Me Down. (Fiction).(Short Story)
September 22, 1999... I'm walking home from school today and there's Jeffrey Morris standing at the end of the street waiting for me. Jeffrey seems to be hanging out a lot lately at the end of our street. Mama says he just gone and noticed that I'm growing up. But...

The female Anopheles. (Fiction).(Short Story)
September 22, 1999... "The Anopheles! it's the anopheles that did it." Holding still the rocking chair in which he sits, Uncle Tibs tingles with pride as he regards his nephew and contemplates the words he has just spoken. Anopheles! such a beautiful word,...

Vivenns. (Fiction).(Short Story)
September 22, 1999... Baritone gritted with rasp, he raps to the hypnotic click of a metronome. He raps his written score, then steps out from behind himself He stares out the window and rolls freestyles from his lips, dropping chrome-lined cars, crumbling...

Cobalt Sea Glass Love Poem. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... Cobalt Sea Glass Love Poem E.B. Reid By the time we found each other the moshing Atlantic had already made your jagged edges soothingly smoother and invitingly bluer. I treasure your penny size self more than sapphires and...

Mobius Loop. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... Mobius Loop * E.B. Reid Recycle me with your Scotch sweetened breath on my skin/ recycle me with your reefer chapped lips on my neck/ recycle me with your ginger root, cinnamon stick and cherry blossom tea/recycle me running...

My Life as a Frog. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... My Life as a Frog E.B. Reid Leave nothing you observe unmentioned. Drug me with preserving fluid and lay my cold limp body on your examination pan. Pin nty appendages down and make sure your scalpel is sharp when you cut...

Love Bite Poem. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... Love Bite Poem (First Friday after Ash Wednesday) E. B. Reid Blueberry, partridge berry, raspberry coloured flesh flavoured mnemonic device Personalized intimate souvenir of what I was supposed to have abstained during...

Worldscope. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... Worldscopes Horace I. Goddard Worldscope I Death is airborne Above these desert sands. The oilfields drip blood While the toys of war Like broken promises are left behind. A Gulf bird brings the message That war is the...

A Final Kiss. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... A Final Kiss (In memory of Mamie) Horace L. Goddard One shuttered glass Holds a single kiss Pressed to your frame. Your eyes are visions, Your lips love words. These tipsy tears From sockets flow Making hollow...

Echoes of the Past. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... Echoes of the Past Horace L. Goddard Like conch shell I broke the spell Of Anancy's ride And spilled wide Secrets on waves Connecting slaves To warrior spears Of Igbo and Ashanti, Coramantine and Fulani Hausa, Yoruba...

Town and Country: Same Difference. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... Town and Country: Same Difference Horace L. Goddard Back back boy wid you vision Bimshire is in a new position The I M F is taking stock Of all dem damn houses on de block From Bridgetown to Crane Beach From South Point to...

Fulfilment. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... FULFILMENT Aleksei Kazuk It is the rainfall that fulfills. In cafe' Windows I regarded groups of young people idle in gossip, inclining heads of the young, gossiping Into their tea or coffee cups-- Rainfall outside...

The Section's Centre. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... THE SECTION'S CENTRE Aleksei Kazuk Fallen, it huddles, like a drunk, ignored By the ploughing, people in cars. Empty, tame: The section's centre with broken beams, Concave walls. The farmers' ploughs round it, bramble...

1967. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... 1967 (for Gwendolyn Brooks) James E. Cherry It was the year of Baraka and the Black Arts Movement dancing to the beat of distant drums, chanting African rhythms of a new love, language, liberation with raised fists and...

St Kitts. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... St Kitts James E. Cherry Planted on sparkling Liamuiga, toes sinking into black sand on hidden beaches, kissing gentle breezes of the Caribbean while the teeth of the Atlantic combs dishelved morning hair, yawning, I count...

Birth Of A God. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... BIRTH OF A GOD James E. Cherry On 125th St, the corner of jazz and poetry, ancestral drums have been stolen, while progenitors of a Renaissance buy Kente cloth from Koreans. in South Central LA, where red and blue seeds of...

Reading Trudeau's Cheminements de la politique in May 1979. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... Reading Turdeau's Cheminements de la Politique in May 1979 George Elliote Clarke Cast in a Billy the Kid slouch, thumbs cocked In belt, his mouth hawking phlegm at pallid, Provincial caudillos, Tirudeau tirades At us...

Nabokov. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... Nabokov George Elliott Clarke Two-thirds of the gilt Sauza Tequila Is not two-thirds now. Must a poet live Entirely on alcohol? I struggle For proof, dreaming of catching mon Poisson In some pleased pussy's jaws,...

Nuance. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... Nuance George Elliott Clarke Steeped in de rigeur "double-consciousness," A sulking, double-crossing doubletalk, Pasty critics geld my "blues-sour, raucous, Mouthy lyrics"--too Negroly rowdy, while black-conscious poets...

An Chateau Frontenac. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... Au Chateau Frontenac For Andrd Alexis George Elliott Clarke Soot-like snow pummels the Saint Lawrence River, Shocks this Hitchcock-shadowy night. Trapped stars Atrophy in flurries. Brittle verses Bitter poets...

Negation. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... Negation George Elliott Clarke My black face must look like murder to you. 1 spilled out crooked, near plots where apples Rotted and woodlots slumped in peonage And cows wrought grass into feces and milk (A silken--but...

Sheep Run. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... SHEEP RUN Coral Hull no crow overhead, just blue sky, an abandoned shack, windowless, burnt out, a landscape of distant iron bark approaching, for the approaching, for the next decade, in every space not filled in, by an old...

Feedlot Cattle in The Rain. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... FEEDLOT CATTLE IN THE RAIN Coral Hull The sky unloads onto crowded cattle, Constrained in pens, mud caked to the knees, A season of rain across thick red hides. The lonely look of cows bogged down, In faeces & urine, Rainfall...

Gerade's Chooks. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... GERADE'S CHOOKS Coral Hull gerade's chooks roost on the back of a quilted lounge, by the open fire & shelves of herbs, licorice & fragrant biscuits, mountain black chooks, sooty fat Cinderellas, falling like ash through his calm...

Halfway. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... Halfway Paloma Mohamed Let it not be said that from this little life I left as I came, knowing nothing. Whether it spans long or cut short that life's little mysteries evaded me, So much Time in solitude and in crowded places...

In "Lew" of time. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... In "Lew" of time... Paloma Mohamed So strange you were. there at my birthing. In your hands I grew sometimes cradled in the palm sometimes upon your fingertips danced. Before I knew you were there, before I saw...

Memory in his eyes. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... Memory in his eyes Paloma Mohamed She alone, in the garden red dressed and dancing, a lew strokes to midnight just for her, the music playing a little longer. Alone in the garden, the night mauve, oblivious as he...

A Poem For Langston Hughes. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... A POEM FOR LANGSTON HUGHES Lenard D. Moore You Langston, you black man who is waiting for our tomorrows not to be underground & lost to oblivion, whose afrikan eyes have sealed like a vault, whose metaphors live on,...

Flounders. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... FLOUNDERS Lenard D. Moore I stare at a school of flounders who float their mouths opened swallowing the summer moon then like a wind they dart between stubborn weeds they become darker & darker then...

On the Point of Movement. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... ON THE POINT OF MOVEMENT Lenard D. Moore So our daughter, having mastered the dance by popping, snapping, jerking, bopping, jammed with my oldest sister, Angela in the whitish light of sun and moon. ...

Raleigh Jazz Festival, 1986. (Poetry).(Poem)
September 22, 1999... RALEIGH JAZZ FESTIVAL, 1986 Lenard D. Moore On the Fayetteville Street Mall a lean man bobs his head. His sax shines like copper in a sunbeam, a splendid rising rhythm... The swingman inches across the homemade platform......

Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 1999... FREE WITHIN OURSELVES: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors Dr. Jewell Parker Rhodes Doubleday; 1999; "We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.-- LANGSTON...

Hand Me Down Calicos. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 1999... Hand Me Down Calicos (Chapbook) by L.Teresa Church, with an Introduction by Lenard D. Moore L. Theresa Church is an African American poet and freelance writer from North Carolina. Her writings appeared in several North Carolina...

Beatrice Chancy. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 1999... BEATRICE CHANCY: A PLAY BY GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE, (POLESTAR) 160 pages As a naturalize Canadian writer my interest is in what black writers particularly Canadians write. How they define their native or adoptive space helps me to understand...

Pigtails 'n Breadfruit. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 1999... Pigtails 'n Breadfruit, A memoir, Austin Clarke, 248., Random House Austin Clarke needs no introduction after writing books receiving numerous awards and lecturing at some of the well-known universities in North America. Clarke is one...

Pourin' Down Rain. (Book Reviews).
September 22, 1999... Pourin' Down Rain Cheryl Foggo Detselig Enterprises Ltd. Alberta (118 pages) I often wondered if before the turn of the century I will be privileged to read a book about growing up black in Canada. That wish came through when...

The Black Canon. (Book Reviews).(The Norton Anthology of African -American Literature)
September 22, 1999... Four landmark volumes define and describe the best of African-American literature. I wasn't taught African-American literature at my high school in Jacksonville, N.C., during the mid-'70's. I was never introduced to the rich rhythms of my...

Kola's list of 100 plus Black Authors of The Twentieth Century (Fiction, Poetry & Drama).(Bibliography)
September 22, 1999... KOLA'S LIST OF 100 PLUS BLACK AUTHORS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (FICTION, PEOTRY & DRAMA) Africa Cameroon * Mongo Beti King Lazarus * Mbella S. Dipoko A Few Nights and Days * Ferdinand Oyono ...

Canada-Japan Literary Awards. (News from Canada Council).(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The new Canada-Japan Literary Awards will provide grants of $5,000 or $10,000 to be made for literary excellence in two categories. The first category is for a book published in either French or English about Japan by a Canadian author, or a...

Four Canadian aboriginal artists receive Prince and Princess Edward Prize. (News from Canada Council).(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... On the 10 November 1999, The Canada Council for the Arts announced that Dan David (Ottawa, Ontan'o), Connie Fife (Vancouver, British Columbia) Walter Nanawin (Wassagamak, Manitoba) and Anna Marie Sewell (Edmonton, Alberta) are the four winners...

The Canada Council establishes Inter-Arts Office. (News from Canada Council).(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Ottawa, 25 November 1999 -- In an effort to encourage and support the creation, production and dissemination of art that transcends or combines traditional artistic disciplines, the Canada Council for the Arts has announced the creation of its...

Definitions.(Glossary)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Performance Art: This is a multi-dimensional artistic practice that 'involves the live presence of the artist in a temporal dimension, often in a critical and process-oriented context. Examples include body art, action art, site-specific...