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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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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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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Defenseless Against the Memory: New Poetry Collection from Bobby C. Rogers
Defenseless Against the Memory Bobby C. Rogers brings depth and richness to his poetry’s West Tennessean setting By Emily Choate, originally published on Chapter 16 on February…
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Saving, Sacrificing and Sailing: A Tom Lee Poem
Saving, Sacrificing and Sailing By Jeanine Jones No walking on water or calming the sea Though, like the savior, he stretched his hands to thee…
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Withers Work Will Never Wither
Withers Work Will Never Wither By Jeanine Jones They say a picture is worth 1000 words His are worth more than 1 million before the…
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Penning, Printing and Pressing On: The Ida B. Wells Statue
This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue I of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in November 2021, page 22-23. Penning, Printing and Pressing On There’s nothing civil about…
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January: A Poem
Swirling thoughts threaten my joy. Burnout: groceries, again; cooking, again; backpacks, again; that minivan with doors that slide: forward, back; forward, back; forward, back; again.…
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Today I need good
By Candace Echols I am so tired, So tired of the tough, So tired of reading about all the world’s stuff. Today I need good, I…
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