Mr. Willie Brown

Mr. Willie Brown

2019 marks 100 years since Red Summer and the lynching and killing of hundreds of blacks across the county. Willie Brown was lynched in my hometown, Omaha, on Sept  28, 1919. A mob of nearly 10,000, a horde of angry and racist men stormed the courthouse, breaking...

Excerpts “Farthest House”

  Nourish the Soul I was seventeen when my savior arrived in the form..   Thoughts Are Things People often ask me if I think those words are true…   The Lynching of Willie Brown 2019 marks 100 years since Red Summer and the lynching and killing…   Mary...

Excerpts “River People”

  Tyrants Remain     Humans Reduced to Labels A label is an idea. A man or a woman reduced to a label…   Losing Belief in Ourselves Today by the age of ten, girls are already…   Touched by the Mystical Six years have passed. Here’s a snippet of the...
Selkies

Selkies

“Sealskin to Her Selkie,” is a wonderful poem by KT Herr. It’s about shutting ourselves away, regretting choices we’ve made, and losing the memory of “how to wake a body/to its home’s emphatic music.”   River People: This is an excellent read. So well written it makes...