03033nam a2200349 a 4500 ebr10340776 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 090103s2009 msu s s000 0ceng 2008055184 9781604732740 (alk. paper) 1604732741 (alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)472605739 n-us--- PS153.N5 S46 2009eb Shaping memories [electronic resource] : reflections of African American women writers / edited by Joanne Veal Gabbin. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009. xvi, 245 p. "The essayists featured here are members of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective"--Introd. A distant star called possibility : Wintergreen / Nikki Giovanni -- Wintergreen and alaga syrup : a writer's reflections on memory, writing, and place / Carmen R. Gillespie -- From "Shaping the world of my art" / Paule Marshall -- Outside of dreams / Ethel Morgan Smith -- The case of the reluctant reader : she who reads last-- / Sandra Y. Govan -- Parting the blue miasma / Kendra Hamilton -- New kid on the block / Joanne Veal Gabbin -- Obstacles or opportunities : the wisdom to know the difference / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory -- The faith walk of writing : connecting head and heart / Marilyn Sanders Mobley -- On my return from exile / Linda Williamson Nelson -- Of history and healing / Janus Adams -- The conscientious outsider / Camille Dungy -- The mother's board / Opal Moore -- My father's passage / Mari Evans -- A blessed life / Maryemma Graham -- A birth and a death, or Everything important happens on Monday / Daryl Cumber Dance -- Ambrosia / Nikky Finney -- Cotton pickin' authority / Trudier Harris -- The first time I saw Big Daddy grinning / Lovalerie King -- On gardening, or A love supreme / Joyce Pettis -- A very good year / Hermine Pinson -- Bury the thought / Karla FC Holloway -- The death of the mother / Eugenia Collier -- A remembrance / Sonia Sanchez -- The night I stopped singing like Billie Holiday / Toi Derricotte -- Afterword: Rites, rituals, and creative ceremonies : a social history of the Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective / Sandra Y. Govan -- Poetry reading : a coda / Opal Moore. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. African American women authors 20th century Biography. American literature African American authors 20th century. Authorship. Electronic books. local Gabbin, Joanne V. Wintergreen Women Writers' Collective. ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10340776 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 156237 156237