Shaping memories
Subtitle: reflections of African American women writers
By: edited by Joanne Veal Gabbin.
Contributors: Gabbin, Joanne V.; Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604732740
Subjects: African American women authors -- 20th century -- Biography; Authorship
Genres: Biography
Table of contents: title: A distant star called possibility : Wintergreen / Nikki Giovanni; title: Wintergreen and alaga syrup : a writer's reflections on memory, writing, and place / Carmen R. Gillespie; title: From "Shaping the world of my art" / Paule Marshall; title: Outside of dreams / Ethel Morgan Smith; title: The case of the reluctant reader : she who reads last ... / Sandra Y. Govan; title: Parting the blue miasma / Kendra Hamilton; title: New kid on the block / Joanne Veal Gabbin; title: Obstacles or opportunities : the wisdom to know the difference / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory; title: The faith walk of writing : connecting head and heart / Marilyn Sanders Mobley; title: Silence, a dangerous luxury : on my return from exile / Linda Williamson Nelson; title: Of history and healing / Janus Adams; title: The conscientious outsider / Camille Dungy; title: The mother's board / Opal Moore; title: My father's passage / Mari Evans; title: A blessed life / Maryemma Graham; title: A birth and a death, or, Everything important happens on Monday / Daryl Cumber Dance; title: Ambrosia / Nikky Finney; title: Cotton pickin' authority / Trudier Harris; title: The first time I saw Big Daddy grinning / Lovalerie King; title: On gardening, or, A love supreme / Joyce Pettis; title: A very good year / Hermine Pinson; title: Bury the thought / Karla FC Holloway; title: The death of the mother / Eugenia Collier; title: A remembrance / Sonia Sanchez; title: The night I stopped singing like Billie Holiday / Toi Derricotte; title: Rites, rituals, and creative ceremonies : a social history of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective / Sandra Y. Govan; title: Poetry reading : a coda / Opal Moore.