by Sherman Alexie “I can’t blame my parents for our poverty because my mother and father are the twin suns around which I orbit. My parents came from poor people who came from poor people who came from poor people, all the way back to the very first poor people.” Alexie’s semi-autobiographical young ...
by Kiese Laymon “Thanking Jesus for getting us through situations we should have never been in was one of our family’s superpowers” I first heard of Kiese Laymon’s work in a book review podcast and was immediately drawn into his discussion of revision. He is known for buying back the rights to one of...
Living Ledbetter photography by Kelly Moore Clarkarticle by Georgiann Potts Dee McDonald Ledbetter comes by her sense of style honestly. She literally grew up surrounded by dapper dressers. Both her parents (Carol and Jesse McDonald) and her maternal grandparents (Mignon and Arthur Emerson) had a cer...
