William Matthews Award, 2002. Vermont Studio Center Fellowship 1997.
Carrie McCray Literary Award, 1995.
Atlantic Center for the Arts Fellowship, 1995.
“I Wish you Black Sons” Obsidian Literature in Review, 2018
“Cotton & Cane”, Cave Canem Anthology XIII, 2015.
“ The Tao of the Little Black Comb”, Silver Birch Press, 2015
. “I’m Fly”, Kakalak: A Journal for Carolina Poets, 2014.
“What Hangs on Trees:  Legacies of the Southern Landscape, 2012.
“Carolinese”, North Carolina Literary Review, Upcoming Summer, 2012.
“Inside Voice”, Qarttsiluni Online Literary Magazine, September, 2011.
“Bruised”, Qarrtsiluni Online Literary Magazine, June 2011.
“My Name’s Not Denmark,” Borderlands, Volume 1, Issue 7, 2011.
“Say Carolina”, “Authors’ Conference” & “Close as I Get to Cursing”, Fall 2011.
“Nostalgia”, Obsidian Literature and Review, Spring, 2011.
“How Not to Fall in Love with a Soldier” & “I Lost the Baby”, Fall, 2010.
Poetry as Healer, 2012
Poetry TEDx Asheville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wCAK-0imME
Poetry Off the Page, Asheville Middle School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJuuxZRCNuE
Dave the Potter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zgZwYougU8
Tao of the Black Plastic Comb http://motionpoems.org/episode/the-tao-of-the-black-plastic-comb/
Sketches (The Life of Harriet E. Wilson in Dance Poetry and Music) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJgWgL9Zb4A
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Brian Drummond
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Abdoulaye Wade
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Bunny Yeager
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David Allen (cricketer)
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Coracle
The coracle is a small, lightweight boat. They were used in Wales, parts of Western and South West England, Ireland, and Scotland The word is also to describe similar boats from India, Vietnam, Iraq and Tibet. The word "coracle" comes from the Welsh word "cwrwgl." This is related to the Irish and Scottish Gaelic word "currach." It is recorded in English as early as the 16th century. Other old English spellings include "corougle", "corracle", "curricle" and "coricle".
Corricles are oval in shape, and look like half a walnut shell. They are made with a framework of split willow branches, twisted together and tied with willow bark. Originally the outer layer was an animal skin from a horse or bullock. These skins were covered with a thin layer of tar to make them keep the water out. Today coracles are made with calico or canvas covered in tar, or simply fibreglass. The Asian coracle is made differently. It uses bamboo and the water is kept out with a layer of resin and coconut oil. The coracle does not have a keel. The flat bottom allows the weight of the boat and its load to be spread evenly. This means it does not need much water to float – as little as a few inches, making it ideal for use on rivers.
Coracles have different designs, as they are designed for the river conditions where they are built and used. The Teifi coracle is flat-bottomed, because it is designed for use in the shallow rapids which common on the river in the summer. The Carmarthen coracle is rounder and deeper, because it is used in tidal waters on the Tywi, where there are no rapids. Teifi coracles are made from local wood. They use willow for the body of the boat, called a lats. Hazel is used for the bit around the top, called Y bleth in Welsh. Tywi coracles have been made from sawn ash for a long time. These days working boats are made from fibreglass. Teifi coracles do not use nails. The twisting together of the lats makes them strong. The Carmarthen coracles use copper nails and are not twisted together.
Coracles are good for fishing because they do not disturb the water or the fish. They can be controlled easily with one arm, while the other arm manages the net; two coracles to a net. The coracle is moved with a broad-bladed paddle. These are also have different designs between different rivers. It is used in a sculling action. The blade makes a figure-of-eight pattern in the water. The paddle is used towards the front of the coracle, pulling the boat forward, with the paddler facing in the direction of travel.
A Welsh Coracle can be carried by a person on their back. 'Llwyth dyn ei gorwgl' — the load of a man is his coracle. (Welsh saying).
The coracle was designed to be used in the quickly flowing streams of Wales and parts of the rest of Britain and Ireland. Coracles are very old, Julius Caesar saw them in Britain in the 1st century BC. Archaeologists believe they have discovered the remains of a coracle in a Bronze Age grave at Barns Farm near Dalgety Bay. Others have been discovered at Corbridge and near Ferriby.
Coracles are so light that they can easily be carried on the fisherman's shoulders. Coracle fishing is performed by two coraclers. The net is stretched across the river between the two coracles. These are paddled with one handed and the net is dragged down the river in the other. When a fish is caught, each fisherman pulls up an end of the net until the two coracles are brought to touch, and the fish is grabbed and put into the boat.
Coracles are not used much these days. They can be seen in tourist areas of West Wales, and sometimes in Shropshire on the River Severn. There is a public house in Sundorne, Shrewsbury called "The Coracle". It has a sign showing a man using a coracle on a river. The Welsh Rivers Teifi and Tywi are the best places to find coracles in Wales. On the Teifi they are usually seen between Cenarth, Cilgerran and Llechryd.
In 1974 Bernard Thomas of Llechryd crossed the English Channel to France in 13½ hours in a coracle. The journey showed how the Bull Boats of the Mandan Indians of North Dakota could have been copied from coracles introduced by Prince Madog in the 12th century.