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Kwansaba: Memwar for the Fallen & the Risen
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Kwansaba: Memwar for the Fallen & the Risen
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It's fall on Planet Ferguson where poetrees
shed leaves & tears onto storied &
varied colors of peace-scapes. Like Juneteenth,
jubilee & terror shade our memwars with
Emmetts, Oscars, Trayvons & Michaels. Till we
forge a seesaw of fallen/risen, marchin'
toward Gil Scott-Heron's "Winter in America."
Eugene B. Redmond (eredmon@siue.edu)
Poet laureate of East Saint Louis, Illinois - October 21, 2014
shed leaves & tears onto storied &
varied colors of peace-scapes. Like Juneteenth,
jubilee & terror shade our memwars with
Emmetts, Oscars, Trayvons & Michaels. Till we
forge a seesaw of fallen/risen, marchin'
toward Gil Scott-Heron's "Winter in America."
Eugene B. Redmond (eredmon@siue.edu)
Poet laureate of East Saint Louis, Illinois - October 21, 2014
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Eugene B. Redmond
Date
October 21, 2014
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Carlotta Algee-Stancil contributed this item to Documenting Ferguson.
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Photos by EBR & Treasure Shields Redmond. Courtesy of the EBR Collection: Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. To view or donate: http://www.siue.edu/lovejoylibrary/about/digital_collections.shtml
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Photos courtesy of the Eugene B. Redmond Collection: Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (eredmon@siue.edu); some photos are by Treasure Shields Redmond.
To view or donate go to: http://www.siue.edu/lovejoylibrary/about/digital_collections.shtml
To view or donate go to: http://www.siue.edu/lovejoylibrary/about/digital_collections.shtml
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Eugene B. Redmond, “Kwansaba: Memwar for the Fallen & the Risen,” Documenting Ferguson, accessed March 28, 2024, http://documentingferguson.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/11667.
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