Kola articles from September 2003

Kola archives from September 2003

Editorial.(Editorial)
September 22, 2003... Black literature and art are at the nexus of Black identity in the Canadian mosaic. The recent recognition of our writers marks the turning point in the advancement of our literature, especially in the academies. Writers such as Austin (Tom)...

A jazz libretto.(Fictional Work)
September 22, 2003... A Geraldine Elizabeth Clark (1939-2000) & Lillian Liu Jackson (1937-1995): Two Dreamers of Beauty & Her Excellency Adrienne Clarkson, Governor-General of Canada Ce qui n'est pas beau a tort d'etre; La beaute n'aime...

The Essential.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... The essential was found deep Prevailing over these ruling dogmas Of Selective, recognised doctrines No relief found from these medicines You named it... Colours, schemes and tones Race through your sore bones ...

Ode to my Mother.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... I've lost her... December first, 2001. The love commitment Can measure up your accomplishment The handrail was accessible and noble Your words encouraging and strengthening You faced defeat so I could reconcile...

Here in Montreal.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... Yes it was right here in Montreal That I came: would you believe I needed to know how the Snow-Birds Really lived in the cold The weather was not what I had expected Here in Montreal It was February, and the...

Yah diggin it Bwoy?(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... It being always damp They told me it was dry cold here, and I must Remember to bundle up Frostbite was a very bad experience: I was told I did not care to find out My first day reminded me of what cold was like So...

Strange Pictures.(Poem)
September 22, 2003... Many years in the tombs Oh, Western universities veiling Their past in silence Where Negro pictures are shown In flash less instances Distorted beauty in obscure images Wearing hunger in disgrace Paddling...

Victoria Street.(Poem)
September 22, 2003... Plamondon a ghetto in progress Black youth hanging looking at girls feeling worthless police cars slithering to and fro registering names and faces staring at cabs drivers and dry lips mamas going home ...

A Race in a Civil War.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... The guns will not stop firing, not until they all have fallen dead. The guns will not stop firing, not until their drums beat no more. The guns will not stop firing, not until we all have gone to hell. A race...

April's Flower.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... April's flower blossom and bloom It's time to come and then you're gone Beauty is the first to fade And in a twinkle youth is gone But if time was yours to keep You would go beyond this point Cause then you just...

Frozen in time.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... Where art thou my love? is it where summer goes or where winter treads and hearts grow cold and frosty preserving loss and death like rare jewels for safe keeping and broken hearts-they never cry; they...

Love is sin.(Brief Article)(Poem)
September 22, 2003... If thy love is not paradise then what is? And if my love of you-is sin, then to hell let my soul be condemned, for heaven I have known. Yet the chatters of the righteous folks have crucified my love of thee...

I Think Therefore ...(Poem)
September 22, 2003... Hawkins and friends say They found the way to the origins of a world that come from nothing and going back to nothing, A fascinating story of matter. But how come I think and come to expect that "how...

September 11.(Poem)
September 22, 2003... The Strike What the fuck! Look. Look... there (Dumb-founded silence) It's going to hit. Oh my God! It's going to hit! (Exploding Flames) Nervous fingers search lips seals that clip ...

Making the 'Damn' Nation the Race's 'Salvation': The Politics of George Elroy Boyd's Consecrated Ground.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2003... George Elroy Boyd's play, Consecrated Ground (1999), lays bare the raw wound of the only Canuck, anti-black racism most Canadians know about: the slow razing, between 1964 and 1970, of the historical black village of Africville, a rural,...

Ice Nelson Johns.(Short Story)
September 22, 2003... Ice, Nelson Johns, and Ice knows dis-here shadowy road just as sure as Ice knows me ol' bones is bloomin-a 'ritis. Ice knows each bump, each jutin boulder and crack; each spot as smooth as the bess chris'll in Massa's parlour. Ice knows it. ...

Barbadian proverbs and sayings.
September 22, 2003... A selection of Barbadian proverbs with correspondeces from other countries. This is the final segment of proverbs that I started in Volume 14, number 1. I received some feedback from readers who noted that I should have explained their...