Kwansaba
cum Haiku: Sacramento Annual Black Book Fair 2015
Reading
is as important as eating.
--Ralph Ellison
Once
Black Books were wrought
by Oak
Park's School of
Afro-American
Thought
“Brickhouse”
& “Underground” soular spots witness polyglots
testify
“Straight Out”--“writin' is
fightin'”--as
Halifu
Osumare, Bill Strickland, Marvin X, Denise
Nicholas,
Diane Pinderhughes, S. Pearl Sharp, David
Covin
& Charles Blackwell scribe like Ishmael's
“reeds.”
Rudy Martin's whisper unfurls fictive/spoken
whirls
& pearls. The nerve of words!
Eugene
B. Redmond
Ritual
ground known as Oak Park hosted the Second Annual Sacramento Black
Book Fair June 5-7 with dozens of w/riters, thinkers, filmmakers,
musicians & visual artists in nine venues--& hundreds of
children & adult attendees. Mind mining panels, literary &
spoken word performances, autograph parties, receptions & walks
near historic sites such as the Women's Civic Improvement Club and
the former Oak Park School of Afro-American Thought (of the 1970's:
thanks James Fisher & Marie Collins!) were among the rich
offerings. Few other collectives in the nation are as threaded into
their communities as the SBBF which boasts scores of supporters,
sponsors & partners. http://www.sacramentoblackbookfair.com/
The place is a little on the pricey side, but boy do you get your money's worth! Our event was as smooth and stress-free as could be. The whole thing at venues in San Francisco was just perfect!
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