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Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context, 50 Years of Poetry by Kalamu ya Salaam
Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context, 50 Years of Poetry by Kalamu ya Salaam Poetry & Spoken Word
Kalamu ya Salaam
Kalamu ya Salaam 0000000067470753 Kalamu ya Salaam is the founder of NOMMO Literary Society and Runagate Press, leader of the WordBand, and a celebrated poet and educator. Born on March 24, 1947, he ...
Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context
Cosmic Deputy: Poetry & Context Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608011896 Poetry Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Cosmic Deputy is a literary memoir from esteemed activist, educator, producer, and poet Ka...
Kysha N. Brown and Kalamu ya Salaam
Kysha N. Brown and Kalamu ya Salaam MULTIPLE Kysha N. Brown and Kalamu ya Salaam are influential authors. Brown excels in creating engaging narratives, while Salaam is renowned for his deep, thought-...
Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander
Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander MULTIPLE Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander are renowned authors known for their impactful and compelling literary works. Kalamu ya Salaam, Kwame Alexander
Tom Dent and Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam
Tom Dent and Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam MULTIPLE Tom Dent and Kalamu ya Salaam are influential authors known for their significant contributions to literature and culture, particularly within the Afr...
Precise Tenderness One Hundred Haiku
Precise Tenderness One Hundred Haiku Kalamu ya Salaam 9780883784266 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press With Precise Tenderness, Kalamu ya Salaam, our long-cherished cosmic deputy, has gifted u...
The Black Arts Movement (BAM)
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) Kalamu ya Salaam Article “…aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power concept.”―Larry Neal The Black Arts Movement spans the period fr...
Why Fertile Ground is an Important Work
Why Fertile Ground is an Important Work Kalamu ya Salaam Article These Are The Lyrics, Our People Are The Music WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE SPIRIT OF BLACKNESS, the spirit of doing for self...
Be about Beauty
Be about Beauty Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608011667 Nonfiction University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press Activist, educator, filmmaker, writer, and poet Kalamu ya Salaam (born Vallery...
Fertile Ground: Memories & Visions
Fertile Ground: Memories & Visions Kysha N. Brown and Kalamu ya Salaam 9780965385404 Fiction Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Read Why Fertile Ground is Such an Important Work Fertile Ground...
I Am New Orleans
I Am New Orleans Robert Fleming Book Review American poet, author, filmmaker, and teacher Kalamu ya Salaam, a leading citizen of New Orleans’s 9th Ward, has always been a booster for the Cresce...
360° A Revolution of Black Poets
360° A Revolution of Black Poets Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander 9780739415856 Poetry BlackWords BlackWords At poetry slams, in coffee houses and cafes, on spoken word CDs, and even featured in H...
Ancient, Ancient: Short Fiction
Ancient, Ancient: Short Fiction Kiini Ibura Salaam 9781933500966 Nonfiction Aqueduct Press Aqueduct Press Winner of the 2012 James Tiptree Jr. Award, Ancient, Ancient collects the short fiction by Kii...
Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam MULTIPLE Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam are celebrated authors known for their impactful works. Zoboi's books highlight diverse cultures, while Salaam's writings focus on socia...
Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Alice Dunbar-Nelson 0000000081179540 Check out Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) was an acclaimed American journalist, political act...
Freedom Knows My Name
Freedom Knows My Name Kelly Harris-DeBerry 9781883275297 Poetry Xavier Review Press Xavier Review Press Introduction by Kalamu ya Salaam “Freedom Knows My Name is electric. Kelly mixes brilliant ...
New Orleans Griot The Tom Dent Reader
New Orleans Griot The Tom Dent Reader Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608011490 Fiction University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press A mid-twentieth century African American writer and cultura...
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 2
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 2 Kalamu ya Salaam Article Report from the Field National Black Writers Conference 2000 Part 2 of 3 “E...
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 1
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 1 Kalamu ya Salaam Article “Elizabeth Nunez, the conference director and the director of the Black Writers Ins...
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 3
The 5th National Black Writers Conference Report from the Field 3 Kalamu ya Salaam Article Report from the Field National Black Writers Conference 2000 Part 3 of 3 “E...
Yusef A. Salaam
Yusef A. Salaam NONE Yusef A. Salaam, a Harlem-born writer, contributes regularly to the New York Beacon and is a member of the National Writers Union. Known for his appearances on the Oprah Winfrey ...
Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips
Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips MULTIPLE "Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds...
Runagate Multimedia
Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia kalamu or Kysha Brown 504-581-2963 Send email to: Runagate@aol.com Many thousands rise and go ma...
Runagate Multimedia
Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia kalamu or Kysha Brown 504-581-2963 Send email to: Runagate@aol.com Many thousands rise and go ma...
Kysha N. Brown
Kysha N. Brown Kam Williams Interview KYSHA N. BROWN (Photo Credit: J.R. Thomason) KYSHA N. BROWN is a publisher, poet and performer. She is co-founder and president of Ru...
Walkin’ Blues
Walkin’ Blues Kalamu ya Salaam 9798989919710 Fiction MBW Modern Book Works Walkin’ Blues is a meditation and speculation on the life and legend of bluesman Robert Johnson. It is a hero’s journey, larg...
What Is Life?: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self
What Is Life?: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self Kalamu ya Salaam 9780883780831 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press An eclectic group of poems and essays using the theme of Black culture as t...
Yusef Salaam
Yusef Salaam NONE Dr. Yusef Abdus Salaam, part of the Exonerated Five, was wrongly convicted in the Central Park jogger case at 15. After years in prison, his sentence was overturned in 2002. His sto...
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice Yusef Salaam 9781538705001 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group This inspirational memoir serves as a call to ...
Word Up: Black Poetry of the 80s From The Deep South
Word Up: Black Poetry of the 80s From The Deep South Kalamu ya Salaam B000T6DTIK Poetry Beans and Brown Rice Beans and Brown Rice
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization Neil deGrasse Tyson 9781250861504 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers New York Times Bestseller Bringing his cosmic perspectiv...
The Quest for Cosmic Justice
The Quest for Cosmic Justice Thomas Sowell 9780684864624 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press This book is about the great moral issues underlying many of the headline-making political controversies of ou...
360° A Revolution of Black Poets edited by Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander
360° A Revolution of Black Poets edited by Kalamu ya Salaam and Kwame Alexander Poetry & Spoken Word
I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam
I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem Edited by Kalamu ya Salaam Poetry & Spoken Word
From A Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets
From A Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets Kalamu ya Salaam 9780965385411 Poetry Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Includes Poetry from 100 New Orleans Poets. An impressive overview of cul...
i see through eyes
i see through eyes Kalamu ya Salaam Book Review Eric Payne is not ready to publish a book a poetry’but, on the other hand, the 21st century is a new time. If a person believes they are a poet a...
I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem
I Am New Orleans: 36 Poets Revisit Marcus Christian’s Definitive Poem Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608011902 Poetry University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press NOLA IsA myth. A reality.A p...
Seeing Black: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond
Seeing Black: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond Kalamu ya Salaam 9781608013029 Nonfiction University of New Orleans Press University of New Orleans Press Situating historical inquiry al...
We Are Bridges: A Memoir
We Are Bridges: A Memoir Cassandra Lane 9781952177927 Nonfiction The Feminist Press The Feminist Press “Cassandra Lane, a former member of Nommo Literary Society, who now lives and works in Los Angele...
Momma Jennifer and Kalamu ya Salaam on the Harlem Renaissance
Momma Jennifer and Kalamu ya Salaam on the Harlem Renaissance Author Interviews
Kalamu ya Salaam on Runagate Publishing
Kalamu ya Salaam on Runagate Publishing Publishing & Craft
The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement
The Magic Of Juju: An Appreciation Of The Black Arts Movement Kalamu ya Salaam 9780883781968 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press A contextual historical examination of the civil rights move...
Jungle Nights & Soda Fountain Rags
Jungle Nights & Soda Fountain Rags Kalamu ya Salaam Book Review Brian Gilmore is a cut above. His 30-part poem on Duke Ellington is deep and deft. Each section can stand alone, but taken as a whole ...
Get Published Not Exploited
Get Published Not Exploited Kalamu ya Salaam Article I don’t give up my copyright to anyone. Period. I will do work for hire— in which case, the copyright is understood before hand t...
The Sight of the 360 Event
The Sight of the 360 Event Troy Johnson Article I never did identify all the folks in the photos below (Troy's note: 1/24/2026) , Toni Asante Lightfoot, Kalamu ya Salaam, , , wad...
Salaam Green
Salaam Green NONE Birmingham’s first Poet Laureate Salaam Green is a celebrated storyteller, healing arts practitioner, and the 2024–2026 Birmingham Poet Laureate. She is a native of Gree...
Punching the Air
Punching the Air Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam 9780062996480 Fiction Balzer & Bray/Harperteen HarperCollins From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the...
The Devil and Elijah Muhammad
The Devil and Elijah Muhammad Yusef A. Salaam 9781499047127 Fiction Xlibris Author Solutions African Studies/Theatre/Religion/History Break-ins, vandalism, hostility between two of Elijah Muhammad’s ...
Other Revival: Poems & Reckonings
Other Revival: Poems & Reckonings Salaam Green 9798990220874 Poetry Pulley Press Clyde Hill Publishing “The Other Revival is about restoring what history has overlooked. In a time when public memory i...
Kiini Ibura Salaam
Kiini Ibura Salaam NONE Kiini Ibura Salaam is a writer, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. The middle child of five, she grew up in a hardscrabble neighborhood with oak and fig trees...
Deuce’s Wild: The Shango Mysteries
Deuce’s Wild: The Shango Mysteries Clyde W. Ford 9780738708096 Fiction Midnight Ink Llewellyn Publications John Shannon’s son J. J. is a huge fan of hip-hop artist Yousef al-Salaam, formerly Deuce F.,...
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith 9780393866889 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Our true origins are not only ...
A Report From The Field
A Report From The Field Troy Johnson Article 360� A Revolution of Black Poets -- A Report From The Field "360� was a two day gathering of poets in Baltimore, Maryland on September 11 & 12, ...
Webb’s Universe: The Space Telescope Images That Reveal Our Cosmic History
Webb’s Universe: The Space Telescope Images That Reveal Our Cosmic History Maggie Aderin-Pocock 9781419774690 Nonfiction Abrams Books Abrams The definitive and most up-to-date book on the James Webb S...
Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Death By Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries Neil deGrasse Tyson 9780393330168 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A vibrant collection of essays on the cosmos from the ...
Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life Of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal
Bad News For Outlaws: The Remarkable Life Of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal Vaunda Micheaux Nelson 9780822567646 Nonfiction Carolrhoda Books Lerner Publishing Group Sitting tall in the saddle, with...
Standing at the Scratch Line
Standing at the Scratch Line Guy Johnson Excerpt LeRoi picked up the rifle that was leaning against a root with its stock in the water. He checked the barrel carefully for obstructions, then mounted ...
Life Out of Context
Life Out of Context Walter Mosley 9781560258469 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group Life Out of Context begins as a powerful, brooding and humorously honest examination of Mosley’s own se...
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001
Etheridge Knight Poetry Fest 2001 Troy Johnson Article THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. FRIDAY, APRIL 20TH THRU SUNDAY, APRIL 22ND, 200...
Herman J. Fountain Jr.
Herman J. Fountain Jr. NONE Rev. Dr. Herman J. Fountain Jr. is a retired psychotherapist with 20 years of experience in a Florida state prison and a former deputy warden in Kentucky. He spent 16 year...
Spherical Woman
Spherical Woman Kysha N. Brown 9780965385428 Poetry Runagate Multimedia Runagate Multimedia Kysha Brown Robinson is a vital new voice: insightful, courageous, substantive and compelling. A book for th...
Cosmic Queries: Startalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
Cosmic Queries: Startalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going Neil deGrasse Tyson 9781426223228 Nonfiction National Geographic Society National Geographic Books Now in paperba...
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery
To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lindsey Nyx Walker 9781426226076 Nonfiction National Geographic National Geographic Books This enlightening illustrated na...
Cosmic Queries: Startalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
Cosmic Queries: Startalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going Neil deGrasse Tyson 9781426221774 Nonfiction National Geographic Society National Geographic Books In this though...
Stephon Alexander
Stephon Alexander NONE Stephon Alexander, a physics professor at Brown University and 2020 president of the National Society of Black Physicists, specializes in string cosmology. He co-invented a mod...
Into Africa, Being Black: New and Selected Poems
Into Africa, Being Black: New and Selected Poems Fred Lee Hord 9780883783498 Poetry Third World Press Third World Press This precious volume of new and selected poems justly widens Dr. Hord’s space am...
Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves
Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves Art T. Burton 9781496233424 Nonfiction Bison Books University of Nebraska Press In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marsha...
A Past That Breathes
A Past That Breathes Noel A. Obiora 9781644281703 Fiction Rare Bird Books Rare Bird Books In January 1995, a promising young musician was found murdered in her apartment in West Los Angeles. There wer...
Brent K. Ashabranner
Brent K. Ashabranner 0000000110762541 Brent K. Ashabranner, born 1921, has vast international experience, working with U.S. foreign assistance programs and the Ford Foundation. He served as director ...
Michael Warr
Michael Warr 0000000046890548 Michael Warr, born in 1955, is an award-winning author from Baton Rouge, LA, notable for his work 'Tracing Poetic Memory'. He serves as the deputy director of the Museum...
Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo
Kinshasha Holman Conwill and Paul Gardullo MULTIPLE Kinshasha Holman Conwill serves as the deputy director of NMAAHC and ex-director of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Paul Gardullo is a historian, cura...
Mona Sutphen
Mona Sutphen 000000004776341X Mona K. Sutphen, a partner at Macro Advisory Partners LLP, is a former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama administration and an ex-American diplom...
Iris Mwanza
Iris Mwanza NONE Iris Mwanza is a Zambian American writer and Deputy Director of Gender Equality at the Gates Foundation. A former corporate lawyer in Zambia and the US, she holds law degrees from Co...
Karine Jean-Pierre
Karine Jean-Pierre 0000000500800507 Karine Jean-Pierre is the former White House Press Secretary and Senior Advisor to President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Born in Martinique and raised in New York by Hait...
Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes Of The Dirty Blues
Too Much Boogie: Erotic Remixes Of The Dirty Blues Kevin James Breaux and Zander Vyne 9781905091898 Nonfiction LL-Publications LL-Publications Selected stories inspired from the recorded gems of the D...
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions Lynda Koolish 9781578062584 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Ai Will Alexander Robe...
Black Southern Voices: An Anthology
Black Southern Voices: An Anthology John Oliver Killens and Jerry W. Ward 9780452010963 Nonfiction Plume Penguin Random House This sweeping anthology celebrates the richly textured black voices of the...
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology
Street Tales: A Street Lit Anthology Shannon Holmes, Wahida Clark, Victor L. Martin, Sa'id Salaam, Reds Johnson, Hood Chronicles, Joe Awsum, and Vance Phillips 9781947732551 Fiction Wahida Clark Prese...
From Dusk to Dawn
From Dusk to Dawn Niambi Davis 9781600430367 Fiction Parker Publishing Parker Publishing Successful body products CEO, Ayo Montgomery, has her life on track. Her son is away at Annapolis, her busines...
Ibi Zoboi
Ibi Zoboi NONE Haitian-born, New York-raised author Ibi Zoboi is an MFA holder from Vermont College of Fine Arts, a New York Times bestselling author, and a National Book Award finalist. She's known ...
Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. KKR & Co. Inc.
Cune Press
Cune Press Salaam Cultural Museum Cune Press
Kiini Ibura Salaam of "Ancient, Ancient"
Kiini Ibura Salaam of "Ancient, Ancient" Author Interviews
The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding
The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding Kam Williams Book Review “In 1990, Anton McCray, Kevin Richardson, Korey Wise, Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana, Jr. [were] convicted and...
Ancient
Ancient Emanuel Carpenter Book Review Imagine fodder for an African-themed Twilight Zone movie or perhaps an idea for a late night movie on the Sci-Fi Channel on the Dark Continent. When reading ...
Race Matters
Race Matters Kirby Roy III Book Review Reading and evaluating the overriding themes in Cornel West’s Race Matters, which was published in 1993, given the context of events that have occurred si...
The U.S. Constitution: An African-American Context
The U.S. Constitution: An African-American Context Gloria J. Browne-Marshall 9780981782508 Nonfiction Law and Policy Group Press Law and Policy Group Press This unique, easily portable version of the ...
Music’s Mask and Measure
Music’s Mask and Measure Jay Wright 9780978746735 Poetry Flood Editions Flood Editions Poetry. At once clear and hermetic, oracular and elegiac, MUSIC’S MASK AND MEASURE presents a series of five "equ...
Map to the Stars
Map to the Stars Adrian Matejka 9780143130574 Poetry Penguin Books Penguin Random House A resonant new collection of poetry from Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for The Pulitzer ...
Stephanie Stokes Oliver
Stephanie Stokes Oliver NONE Stephanie Stokes Oliver is an accomplished publishing professional, heading SSO Media, serving as a literary scout for Atria Book Group and as author curator for Anguilla...
David Simon
David Simon 0000000122782515 David Simon, award-winning author of novels, plays, and poetry, is also known for his bestselling educational series and workbooks for children. His contributions in offe...
And It Don’t Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
And It Don’t Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years Raquel Cepeda 9780571211593 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers In September 1979, there was a cosmic...
Be Easy: New and Selected Poems
Be Easy: New and Selected Poems Adrian Matejka 9781324097501 Poetry St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers Revered for his “patient, clever, controlled, [and] visionary” (Hanif Abdurraqib) poems, Adr...
Death Does Not End at the Sea
Death Does Not End at the Sea Gbenga Adesina 9781496244772 Poetry University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry In Gbeng...
The Language of Saxophones : Selected Poems of Kamau Daáood
The Language of Saxophones : Selected Poems of Kamau Daáood Kamau Daa’ood 9780872864412 Poetry City Lights Publishers City Lights Publishers A long-awaited collection from a pioneer of the spoken word...
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era Jerry Mitchell 9781451645149 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. "For almost two decades, investi...
New England White: A Novel
New England White: A Novel Stephen L. Carter 9780375413629 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House The eagerly awaited, electrifying new novel from the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park ...
Barbara A. Robinson
Barbara A. Robinson NONE Barbara A. Robinson is a multi-faceted individual; an author, businesswoman, and educator. She served the 40th legislative district in the Maryland Senate for 13 years and is...