November 2025- When I finally sat down to read “Jimmy,” I wasn’t ready, and he floored me. He explained the psychology, mythology, sociology, and historical compass by which to understand white supremacy. The reasons, deep and internal, for why white people needed to be white and for why they needed me and my brothers and sisters in the diaspora to be niggers. Like the Old Testament prophets of the Bible, he showed us human beings what being vulnerable, sinful, hateful, stupid and lost looked, and sounded like. Jimmy’s command of history, in “Stranger in the Village” in particular, is astounding and instructive.

That we remain “trapped in history” became a motif for my own work. I strive to communicate, through my poetry and prose, that humanity endures through the life cycles of the consequences born of the choices we make. Read more…