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  Ten Bridges I've Burnt - A...

  Brontez Purnell

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  In Ten Bridges I've Burnt, Brontez Purnell—the bard of the underloved and overlooked—turns his gaze inward. A storyteller with a musical eye for the absurdity of his own existence, he is peerless in his ability to find the levity within the stormiest of crises. Here, in his first collection of genre-defying verse, Purnell reflects on his peripatetic life, whose ups and downs have nothing on the turmoil within. "The most high-risk homosexual behavior I engage in," Purnell writes, "is simply existing."The thirty-eight autobiographical pieces pulsing in Ten Bridges I've Burnt find Purnell at his no-holds-barred best. He remembers a vicious brawl he participated in at a poetry conference and reckons with packaging his trauma for TV writers' rooms; wrestles with the curses, and gifts, passed down from generations of family members; and chronicles, with breathless verve, a list of hell-raising misadventures and sexcapades. Through it all, he muses on everything from love and loneliness to capitalism and Blackness to jogging and the ethics of art, always with unpredictable clarity and movement.With the same balance of wit and wisdom that made 100 Boyfriends a sensation, Purnell unleashes another collection of boundary-pushing writing with Ten Bridges I've Burnt, a book as original and thrilling as the author himself.

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  As I Become: The Awareness

  Yansane J. Mathis

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  As I Become: The Awareness by Yansané J. Mathis is a powerful, generational, and illuminating read that will continuously shift the paradigm. The literature art piece is a soulful capsule that compliments vacation trips, employment shifts, daily exercise routines, and morning motivational meditation. Lastly, the rhythmic power of the book can ignite all walks of life. The pulsating prophecy can subconsciously motivate individuals that are not avid readers. This book will infinitely stand as an independent anomaly.

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  The Kraken

  Alfred Tennyson

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 28th, 2007.

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  Herding Cats (NHB Modern Plays)

  Lucinda Coxon

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  A chillingly funny play that freeze-frames a generation negotiating intimacy and independence in the twenty-first century.
  Meeting the demands of twenty-first-century life is as impossible as herding cats for Justine, Michael and Saddo.
  Justine has an infuriating new boss, Michael chats to strangers for a living, Saddo is one of them. All three are living a comic fiction in an attempt to avoid the facts. And now Christmas is coming... ready or not.
  'the polished black shards of humour and ripples of queasy horror make for a compelling cackle into the void' - Time Out
  'Lucinda Coxon's brutal but icily funny three-hander is the dramatic equivalent of a triple shot of something bitter and delicious... fine theatre' - Evening Standard
  'Unforgettable' - The Times
  'A cool gaze on the disconnectedness of contemporary life which lets nobody off the hook... So brutal, you almost forget to breathe' - Guardian

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  New Shoes On A Dead Horse - Poems

  Sierra DeMulder

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  The Romans believed that an artist's inspiration came from a spirit, called a genius, that lived in the walls of the artist's home. 
   In her second book, Sierra DeMulder examines her childhood in a small town, heartache, loss, and the possibility of transcending suffering, aided by the voice of her own genius. Her character appears throughout the book, providing charming commentary and biting insight on the young author's creative process and emotional path.

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  The Poetry of James Weldon...

  James Weldon Johnson

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  James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida on June 17th 1871.  His mother, Helen, a musician and a public school teacher initially home-schooled him giving him a love of both English literature and European music.  
   
  At 16 his education moved to Atlanta University and he graduated with a degree in 1894.   
   
  In 1904 Johnson helped in Theodore Roosevelt's presidential bid.  On winning Roosevelt appointed him as US consul at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela in 1906 and then Nicaragua from 1909.  
   
  Johnson worked for the NAACP from 1916 as a field secretary, organizing local chapters.  To counter race riots and lynching’s he organized mass demonstrations, such as a silent protest parade of over ten thousand African Americans down New York’s Fifth Avenue in July 1917.  
   
  In 1920 Johnson was elected to manage the NAACP, the first African American to hold this position.  That same year he was dispatched to monitor conditions in Haiti and described in The Nation the brutal occupation and also offered remedies. During the 1920’s he was one of the major inspirations of the Harlem Renaissance 
   
  In the midst of all this he continued to write novels, poems, and folklore. In 1917, he saw published ‘50 Years and Other Poems’.  In 1922, he edited ‘The Book of American Negro Poetry’, which the Academy of American Poets calls "a major contribution to the history of African-American literature." In 1927 followed ‘God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse’.  
   
  One of the first African-American professors at NYU he was also, later, a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University. His career spanned several elements; education, the diplomatic corps, civil rights activism, literature, poetry, and music.  
   
  James Weldon Johnson died on June 26th, 1938 whilst vacationing in Wiscasset, Maine when his car was hit by a train. 
   
  01 - The Poetry of James Weldon Johnson 
  02 - Mother Night by James Weldon Johnson 
  03 - Brothers. American Drama by James Weldon Johnson 
  04 - A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson 
  05 - O Black and Unknown Bards by James Weldon Johnson 
  06 - Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson 
  07 - I Hear the Stars Still Singing by James Weldon Johnson 
  08 - A Mid-Day Dreamer by James Weldon Johnson 
  09 - Morning, Noon and Night by James Weldon Johnson 
  10 - The Temptress by James Weldon Johnson 
  11 - Venus in the Garden by James Weldon Johnson 
  12 - The White Witch by James Weldon Johnson 
  13 - Beauty That Is Never Old by James Weldon Johnson 
  14 - Before A Painting by James Weldon Johnson 
  15 - The Awakening by James Weldon Johnson 
  16 - The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face by James Weldon Johnson 
  17 - Her Eyes, Twin Pools by James Weldon Johnson 
  18 - Down By The Carib Sea by James Weldon Johnson 
  19 - Deep in the Quiet Wood by James Weldon Johnson 
  20 - O Southland by James Weldon Johnson 
  21 - Fifty Years (1863 - 1913) by James Weldon Johnson 
  22 - The Suicide by James Weldon Johnson 
  23 - And the Greatest of These Is War by James Weldon Johnson 
  25 - Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson 
  26 - To America by James Weldon Johnson 
  27 - Life by James Weldon Johnson 
  28 - Ghosts of the Old Year by James Weldon Johnson 
  29 - Lazy by James Weldon Johnson 
  30 - The Word of an Engineer by James Weldon Johnson 
  31 - The Creation by James Weldon Johnson 
  32 - Prayer At Sunrise by James Weldon Johnson 
  33 - Listen Lord, A Prayer by James Weldon Johnson 
  34 - The Reward by James Weldon Johnson 
  35 - Sleep by James Weldon Johnson 
  36 - Go Down Death by James Weldon Johnson

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