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Life-Works: A Norma Cole Folio

By Norma Cole & Dale M. Smith

A Canadian poet and painter who has been a linchpin of the Bay Area arts scene for nearly 50 years.  

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I Google Myself

By Mel Nichols
I Google myself
I want you to love me
When I feel down
I want you to Google me
I search myself
I want you to find me
I Google myself
I want you to remind me


I don’t Google anybody else
When I think about you 
I Google myself
Ooh
I...

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Black woman joy is like this:
Mama said one day long before I was born
she was walking down the street...
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