Can a man die of oxygen deprivation if there’s a strong, heavy knee placed on his neck for 9 (oh, just give and take, the killings haven’t even slowed down yet, homeys) minutes? Or must we dig for alternative causes like all the ills that black folks have been heir to and victim-blamed for throughout these last great American centuries—drugs, poor self-care, poverty, despair, lack of faith in the SYSTEM and the MAN, systemic denigration [note the intended pun! The word means ‘to blacken’!] and devaluation—till we come up with something resembling business as usual.
Category: Riot
You can Still watch a reading by me, Usha Akella and Tori Reynolds, two amazing poets, at the KGB BAR, Nov 15, 6 -8 PM CST
PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO KGB BAR when you sign up for this event.
This iconic, independent literary institution of New York is on the verge of closing doors forever unless we, the public, readers and writers, who want the arts to survive, support them.
Review of Love’s Garden
Forewords Review of Love’s Garden BUY LOCALLY VIA BOOKSHOP BUY ON AMAZON LOVE’S GARDEN Nandini BhattacharyaAubade Publishing (Oct 27, 2020)Softcover $18.95 (435pp)978-1-951547-08-0 Clarion Rating: 4 out of 5 Love’s Garden is an expansive love story set during turbulent times. https://atomic-temporary-161503341.wpcomstaging.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3983 Mari Carlson, Forewords Review of Love’s Garden Nandini Bhattacharya’s historical romance Love’s Garden witnesses India’s turbulent history at the turn of the twentieth century through the lives of one family. In 1898, Britain has influenced India’s law to the extent that Saroj need not die when her first husband does. Nor is she forced to marry her brother-in-law against her wishes. Instead, she arranges to marry…
Please join me for the Launch of my novel Love’s Garden at Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX
Friends, I have the great pleasure of inviting you to the Book Launch of Love’s Garden, October 27, 2020, 7-8 pm, at Brazos Bookstore, Houston.
Juneteenth in George Floyd’s America
Wherever you are, and whoever you are, reading this, what are we going to do? What are we going to do when it looks like the ‘man’ who stands behind all this is probably going to get re-elected in November 2020?
One Planet, Only One 