5 years ago
IN THE ARTS: MY GRANDMOTHER IS WAITING FOR ME TO COME HOME
My Grandmother is waiting for me to come home We live with walnuts and apples in a one-room kitchenette above The Some Day Liquor Gardens.
My Grandmother sits in a …
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5 years ago
IN THE ARTS: GRANDMOTHERS COMEDY ROUTINE
Richard Pryor’s grandmother’s Marie Pryor features prominently not only in his journey to stardom, but also his comedic material. Pryor was born to LeRoy “Buck” Pryor and …
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5 years ago
IN THE ARTS: “SWITCHES” COMEDY ROUTINE
Photo credit: http://www.becomingrichardpryor.com/pryors-peoria/people/marie-pryor
5 years ago
IN THE ARTS: BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE
Excerpt from Play:
(Near the end of the song, Mother Henry enters, carrying a tray with milk, sandwiches, and cake.)
Richard: You treating me like royalty, old lady – I …
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5 years ago
IN THE ARTS: The Dungeon Shook-Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation
“Dear James:
I have begun this letter five times and torn it up five times. I keep seeing your face, which is also the face of your father and …
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5 years ago
In the Arts: Lineage
My grandmothers were strong. They followed plows and bent to toil. They moved through fields sowing seed. They touched earth and grain grew. They were full of sturdiness and singing. …
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5 years ago
In the Arts: POEM FOR NANA
Poem for Nana What will we do when there is nobody left to kill?
40,000 gallons of oil gushing into the ocean But I sit on top this mountainside above …
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5 years ago
In the Arts: Adolescence I
In water-heavy nights behind grandmother’s porch We knelt in the tickling grasses and whispered: Linda’s face hung before us, pale as a pecan, And it grew wise as she said: …
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5 years ago
IN THE ARTS: CANE RIVER
Excerpt from book:
“My great grandmother Emily died in bed at her Louisiana home at the end of the summer of 1936, with $1300 in cash hidden under her mattress. …
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