By DéLana R.A. Dameron My great, great poet friend, Randall Horton suggested to me a while ago–ok, several years ago–that I read Wrapped In Rainbows, a biography of Zora Neale Hurston. I was looking for a book to read at the time. I wrote it down on my to-read list, and kept moving. [...]
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Wrapped in Rainbows
Posted in déLana r.a. dameron, tagged A Question of Freedom, Dwayne Betts, Wrapped in Rainbows, Zora Neale Hurston on February 26, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Nikky Finney (part one of others to come)
Posted in déLana r.a. dameron, tagged grandmother, pennies, property, real estate, SC, South Carolina on February 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By DéLana R.A. Dameron I was in a coffee shop three years after my grandmother died, and I wanted to write a poem. My father was going through this legal battle with my uncle over my grandmother’s house over why they should sell it. My father, the executor of her estate (though it had [...]
For Colored Kids Who’ve Considered Suicide or Outside Community (when the Institution is not enuf)
Posted in déLana r.a. dameron, tagged all-white, Carolina African American Writer's Collective, Cave Canem, Chapel Hill, inside, institution on February 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
My first Cave Canem circle was in 2006. I was 21, the youngest member at the time in all of Cave Canem. The oldest member at the time was Carrie Allen McCray, 93 and living in my hometown of Columbia, South Carolina. It was an interesting parallel–so many generations of black poetry in one space. [...]
Mules and Men (or, black women and the world)
Posted in déLana r.a. dameron, tagged AWP panel, black women, Brotha, Claudia Rankine, gender, Jill Scott, mules, privilege, publishing, race, sexuality, Show me, solidarity, The Change, Tony Hoagland, us, we, Zora Neale Hurston on February 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »
By DéLana R.A. Dameron I’m still transcribing some panel thoughts and general ideas of AWP, but I wanted to send a note in its place. Sort of like flashes of thoughts going on in my mind at 2am, when I’m just getting back from my sister’s Super Bowl Party, and my belly is full, [...]
All over the place (or, this blog post is a long, winding road)
Posted in déLana r.a. dameron, tagged angel, bronze, cave canem retreat, clifton, lucille, monument on February 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
By DéLana R.A. Dameron I’m thankful to be blogging for Tidal Basin Review for the month of February. I have such great plans for this month, and I hope they come across clearly and articulately through this vessel. I maintain my own blog here and there, and find that I’m an avid reader of OPB [...]
Welcome TBR’s February Blogger, DéLana R.A. Dameron!
Posted in déLana r.a. dameron on February 1, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Introducing TBR’s February Blogger, DéLana R.A. Dameron! DéLana R.A. Dameron holds a B.A. in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has a strong interest in the intersections of history and literature. Her debut collection, How God Ends Us, won the 2008 South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, selected by [...]
