![]() ![]() ![]() We also attended Ward’s Portland Arts & Lectures event on January 18. In the change between fall and winter, the eighteen of us bridged the turning of a year by reading and discussing two books: James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and Jesmyn Ward’s curated and edited essay collection The Fire This Time. After three months, and missed deadline after deadline, I offer this painstaking reflection and these thoughts faltering, unfinished, heavy, and loaded… And even though it started on Novemand ended on Janu– on the one year anniversary of the presidential inauguration of a demogogue – it has taken me months to process, a flight to a different country, and the space and distance from Portland for me to even begin. *This blog article will appear also in the Oregon Arts Watch in 2018.Īs a scribe, my tuition was comped for the sold-out Delve, “One Nation Still on Fire,” which was the only way I could afford the seminar. ![]() One Nation Still On Fire: James Baldwin and Jesmyn Ward ![]()
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