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NOLA IsA myth. A reality.A port. A place. An opening. A dead end.A womb. A grave.Audubon Zoo and Monkey Hill uptown.Mardi Gras Fountain with the colored lights downtown. Above ground crypts at St. Louis Cemeteries 1, 2, and 3.Football fields. Parade grounds. Picnic areas. Citywide.Lake front. River front. Fishing hole. Bayou swamp. Raw oysters. Fried chicken. Front-liners. Second-liners. Storefront churches. A sacred cathedral.Superdome. Shotg...

Cosmic Deputy is a literary memoir from esteemed activist, educator, producer, and poet Kalamu ya Salaam. Representative poems from Salaam's fifty years of writing are interspersed in an overarching essay tracing the poet's multitude of influences. Toward mapping a theory of a Black literary aesthetic, Salaam explores the cultural inheritances of Black resistance movements, blues music, and the ways in which these sources and others have shape...

Activist, educator, filmmaker, writer, and poet Kalamu ya Salaam (born Vallery Ferdinand, III on 24 March 1947 in New Orleans) presents a collection of selected writings that celebrates "essential human beauty and goodness." Through essays, poetry, and speeches, ya Salaam distills his years of wisdom, reflecting on a career built on art and activism, which strove to create community while resisting the powerful who worked to tear it apart. Int...