Poet, novelist and Burke’s Book Store owner, Corey Mesler, will be at Burke’s Book Store on Thursday, September 29th, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM to…
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I AM RUBY BRIDGES: Reading Festival This Saturday at the Civil Rights Museum
From the National Civil Rights Museum: For the fifth year, the museum is proud to partner with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges-Hall to present the…
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The Lamp
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue II of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in March 2022. Lamps do not have names – at least, most do not.…
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Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells She’s small, standing in her full skirt Between the music of Beale and the bells of the Baptist church. Ida B Wells,…
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Memphis Historical Fiction with a Historian’s Stamp of Approval
The most useful interpretations of the past make history relevant and accessible to wide audiences. When authors use well-researched facts about Memphis’s complex history as…
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Watch and Read the Winning Tom Lee Poetry Contest Works
Tom Lee Poetry Contest Winners On Friday, May 6, 2022, the Memphis River Parks Partnership recognized the winners of the inaugural Tom Lee Poetry and…
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New Novel Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
The Right to Decide Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez considers a terrible injustice fueled by prejudice and good intentions By Sara Beth West, originally published April 13,…
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Memphis by Tara Stringfellow: A Tender, Honest Narrative
By Sara Beth West for Chapter16.org, originally published March 28, 2029 There are readers who claim that every great novel must have a map in the front.…
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The Two Souths: An Interview with Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker
Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker explain how Southern politics shaped the modern United States By Aram Goudsouzian for Chapter16.org, originally published March 28, 2022 “The South and…
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More than She, Her, Hers: A Poem
More than She, Her, Hers Jeanine Jones More than hips thighs heartache and cries Fallopian tubes silk stocking, shaved legs ovaries and eggs Petite purses…
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