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A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins

the victim hanged, though not on a tree, this
was not the country, they used a steel arch
with electric lights, and later a lamppost, this
was a modern event, the trees were not involved.
--from "Blue Front"

Martha Collins's father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000 participants, is shocking.

In Blue Front,...

White Papers is a series of untitled poems that deal with issues of race from a number of personal, historical, and cultural perspectives. Expanding the territory of her 2006 book Blue Front, which focused on a lynching her father witnessed as a child, this book turns, among other things, to Martha Collins' childhood. Throughout, it explores questions about what it means to be white, not only in the poet's life, but also in our culture and history, even our pre-history. The styles and forms are varied, as are the approaches; some of the poems address race only implicitly,...

Dear Reader,

The Storm is a fictional depiction of a real-life problem experienced by many in the body of Christ and all without. The Storm takes place in the city of Brightsville but can be applied to where you live. The Storm poses the critical question concerning what influences what we think, say, and do. It would be naIve to think the situations we experience in life are merely random happenings without real purposes. There is nothing that happens in the physical realm without it first happening in the spirit. What if you had the power to change your life? What if you were in a...

Dear Reader,

The Storm is a fictional depiction of a real-life problem experienced by many in the body of Christ and all without. The Storm takes place in the city of Brightsville but can be applied to where you live. The Storm poses the critical question concerning what influences what we think, say, and do. It would be naIve to think the situations we experience in life are merely random happenings without real purposes. There is nothing that happens in the physical realm without it first happening in the spirit. What if you had the power to change your life? What if you were in a...

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