Call for Papers
A Callaloo Call for Papers
Broadcast on Ethiopia: A Special Issue
Guest Editors: Dagmawi Woubshet, Salamishah Tillet, and Elizabeth Wolde-Giorgis
We invite submissions for a special issue on Ethiopia. This special issue will bring together creative and critical writing from within and without Ethiopia. In addition to creative writing in Amharic and other Ethiopian languages, this issue will [...]
love and loathing
Love this note I recently got from a dear friend:
I hear some kids in Harlem say the N-word is whack. They now refer to one another as Prezident.
This, purportedly from a Barnes & Noble window, not so much:
UPDATE: Apparently it was tampered with: http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/press_releases/2009_march_6_coral_gables.html but really, they didn’t see someone climbing around in the window [...]
E. Ethelbert Miller book party
DON’T FORGET NEXT WEEK:
Save the Date.
Book Party at Busboys and Poets, 14th and V Streets, NW., Washington, D.C.
March 16th at 7 PM.
The 5th Inning by E. Ethelbert Miller
MILLER ON NPR:
E. Ethelbert Miller: Baseball, Memoirs and Secrets
this looks interesting
New Book in Art and Photography
Pictures from a Drawer
Bruce Jackson
A remarkable collection of prison “portraiture” photos
For more than forty years, Bruce Jackson has been documenting—in books, photographs, audio recording and film-inmates’ lives in American prisons. In November 1975, he acquired a collection of old ID photos while he was visiting the Cummins Unit, [...]
Samuel Fosso in the NYT
T Magazine, New York Times March 8th edition, published an important story about SAMUEL FOSSO”A MAN OF A THOUSAND FACES” LESLIE CAMHI SHATTERS SAMUEL FOSSO’S MASK. You can read it online at :
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/03/08/style/t/index.html#pageName=08fasso or download the PDF here: fossotmagazine
my other sites
photography groups
sites where I contribute
81 Press
- Taking a Break February 7, 2012Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
- A New Mission for Aperture? February 7, 2012[…]
- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 7, 2012Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]