The pandemic memoirs began almost immediately, and now comes another kind of offering a searching look at the meaning of the racial catharsis to which the pandemic in some sense gave birth and voice and life. Tracy K. Smith co-edited the stunning book,
There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis, a collection of 40 pieces that span an array of BIPOC voices from Edwidge Danticat to Reginald Dwayne Betts, from Layli Long Soldier to Ross Gay to Julia Alvarez. Tracy and Michael Kleber-Diggs, who also contributed an essay, join Krista for a conversation that is quiet and fierce and wise. They reflect inward and outward, backwards and forwards, from inside the Black experience of this pivotal time to be alive.
By Larissa IrankundaMay 18th, 2021, 4:02 pm
Brian Broome’s memoir
Punch Me Up to the Gods is one of the most stunning debuts I’ve had the pleasure of reading.
Broome’s voice captures you instantly, drawing your attention into the beautiful, poignant, and often painful intricacies of Black adolescence most particularly, Broome’s adolescence as a dark-skinned, gay Black boy in the 1980s. With a beautiful introduction by poet Yona Harvey,
Punch Me Up to the Gods is a novel that not only examines Black boyhood but
celebrates it, embodying the heart of Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “We Real Cool” in every page.
Jon Pannell
This letter was submitted by Jon Pannell, a local attorney with Gray Pannell & Woodward LLP and the current chair of the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce.
Over the past several weeks, whenever I have been asked whether I plan to get the COVID-19 vaccine, my answer has been a resounding, Yes! In fact, I received my first vaccination on March 29, and I am proud to say that I received my second vaccination this week.
As a member of the business community, my message to you today is to please encourage your employees, your friends, and your family to get vaccinated.