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Books by Kalamu ya
Salaam
The Magic of JuJu: An Appreciation of the Black Arts
Movement /
360:
A Revolution of Black Poets
Everywhere Is Someplace Else: A Literary Anthology
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From A Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets
Our Music Is No Accident /
What Is Life: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self
My Story My Song (CD)
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Bio-Sketch
Kalamu ya Salaam was born Vallery Ferdinand III on March 24, 1947 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He
attended Carleton College (1964-1969), and Delgado Junior
College from which he earned an A.A. (Associate Arts) degree in
business administration.
Mr.
Salaam is a professional editor/writer, filmmaker,
producer and arts administrator.
He served as a senior partner in the New Orleans
based public relations firm of Bright Moments Inc. (1984 - 1996)
and is a co-founder (with Kysha Brown) of Runagate Multimedia,
Inc. He is the founder and director of NOMMO Literary Society, a
New Orleans-based Black writers workshop. Salaam is also the
founder and moderator of e-Drum, an informational listserv for
Black writers and diverse supporters of literature worldwide.
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bio
Table of
Contents
Kalamu
Bio Kalamu Neo-Griot
Kalamu ya Salaam Biblio
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for Life: My Story, My Song (Table)
Poems
2
SISTERS
expected
you yesterday
no
entrance
those
good things there be that are
madpoet
Leader
Love
And
Black women!
NAMES,
PLACES, US
The
Blues
HIWAY
BLUES
NTOZAKE
SHANGE
LAMENT
INSPIRATION
TOP 40
IBURA/COME
GET TO THIS
all
that's black ain't brother
Diapers
and Dishes
Tomorrows'
Toussaints
Beyond
The Boundaries
PA
FERDINAND
...AND
RAISE BEAUTY TO ANOTHER
LEVEL OF SWEETNESS
haiku
#7
THE
CALL OF THE WILD
a
moment in a mississippi juke joint
Tasty
Knees
haiku #79
haiku
#37
haiku
#123
haiku
#48
haiku
#112
haiku
#58
The
Meaning Of Life
haiku
#125
Earth
Day
For
my wife when I do that thing
For my child when I do
that thing
Whi/te Boy Gone to the Moon *
* * * * Breath
of Life: A Conversation about Black Music
(Music Blog)
The Best of
the Staple Singers, as BAM Artis
Bob Marley:
The Black Survivors The
Divine Music of Alice Coltrane
Gil
Scott-Heron & His Music
James
Brown -- Messing with the Blues
From Mozart to Headhunters (Herbie
Hancock)
Nina Simone: The
Emotional Depths of the Spirit World
Police Brutality and Rappers *
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Essays
ACTION all out to stop the war
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Peace Yes War No
Black Arts
Movement (literary history)
Clapping
On Two and Four
Do Right Women
(musical history)
Is A Sonnet More Than Fourteen Lines
The Importance of an African
Centered Education
Liberated Zones in Cyberspace
On Writing Haiku
Our Women Keep Our
Skies From Falling (Book)
Tarzan Can Not Return to Africa,
But I Can -- PanaFest 1994
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TWO TRAINS RUNNING BLACK POETRY 1965-2000: What Is Black Poetry
(literary history)
What
Is Life? (Book)
What Is Life: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self
WORDS:
A Neo-Griot Manifesto
Writing
Sonnets On Writing Haiku
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Interview
I
(Table) Interview II
What Is Life Nia Interview III
Digital
Technology & Telling Our Story
Interview IV
Never
Too Much The
Sensitive Luther Vandross
An
Interview With Luther Ronzoni Vandross, Jr.
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Kalamu ya Salaam
Interview Table Play
Malcolm My Son
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Black Poetry Text & Sound
TWO TRAINS RUNNING BLACK POETRY 1965-2000
(notes towards a discussion & dialogue)
By Kalamu ya Salaam
What is poetry? That is not a rhetorical question.
What it is we are discussing? I define poetry as "stylized
language." Within the context of what is generally called
literature, I further specify that poetry is language stylized to have
an emotional impact on its audience. Within the world of
English-language poetry, the chief methods of stylization are: 1. meter
and/or rhythm 2. the specific use of sound usually in terms of
a. rhyme
b. assonance/consonance c. alliteration d. onomatopoeia 3. figurative
language, chiefly simile and metaphor.
The canonical standards for contemporary American
poetry have their beginnings in England with Shakespeare and their most
important developments in the modernist movement of the 1920s (T.S.
Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings and William Carlos
Williams). The fountain heads of contemporary American poetry are
considered to be Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.
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Poems
Bush Mama
Iron
Flowers
Murder of Amilca Cabral
Nia: Haiku,
Sonnets, Sun Songs (Table)
Queen
Nzinga's Army
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Reports
All
Hands on Deck
(Kalamu)
american studies
association conference houston, 15 november
2002
at Clemson
at
MIT
Bowery
Poetry Club Benefit
evacuating
new orleans new orleans, 15 September 2004
Generations at
Thanksgiving
gwendolyn
brooks writers conference (Chicago
Report, October 23-26 2002)
Hurricane
Library Relief (Kalamu)
I Am
Ashamed Of Myself
in Dallas
in houston
It's Hard: Post
Katrina New Orleans
(19 June 2006)
I WANT TO
BUT I DON'T
(Kalamu)
in
the hot house of black poetry (Harrisonburg,
VA; 22 Sept. 2004)
kalamu
in the carolinas (1 - 2
November 2002)
Kalamu
in Baltimore (Reports
& Reviews; 4 November 2005)
Kalamu Needs Work
kalamu
on the road 9 oct 2005
Kalamu
Travel Update
Kalamu
Update ("I'm in Nashville")
kalamu
visits home
kalamu
update 30 sept 2005
Listen
to the People Update
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Kalamu ya Salaam
Reports:
Post-Katrina New Orleans
It's Hard
I'm Crazy
Cracking Up
Stephanie
Take Deep
Breaths
Spirits in
the Dark
Katrina
& Kalamu
Listen
To The People (Kalamu; 7 September 2005)
LISTEN
TO THE PEOPLE: The Neo-Griot New Orleans Project (15
September 2005)
lorenzo
thomas panel
houston, 15 november
2002
mama
what's an afro geek?
(5 May 2004)
mama what2s an afro geek (2)
Neo-Griot Workshop (Kalamu)
quick notes from the field
(Kalamu)
The
Storyteller of New Orleans by Elizabeth
D.
Tenderloin
Book Fair Report (1/30/04
-- 1/31/04)
where
in the world is kalamu
zora smiles--kalamu at zora neale
hurston festival (part 2 of 2)
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Short Stories
Kalamu's Feminist Erotica
(kalamu notes)
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* * Related Files
The
African World
After Hours Contents After Hours Contributors
Simmons
Review After Hours Contributors
Introduction
to After Hours Amilcar
Cabral Bio
The Art of Tom Dent
The Black Joan
of Arc Black Tech
Review
Feminism,
Black Erotica & Revolutionary Love Essay by Rudolph Lewis
Island
Cabral
Sketch
Court Order Can't Make Races Mix Guest Poets
Island Literary
New Orleans
Poetic
Journey
The
Quotable Cabral
Responses
to Feminism, Black Erotica, & Revolutionary Love
Southern Journey
The State of Black Erotica The Tenderloin Book
Fair Tom Dent Bio
Tom Dent Speaks
Zora
Neale Hurston Chronology
zora smiles
zora smiles 2
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updated 9 April 2008
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