Tayari's Blog: Tombstone Tuesday
Posted by TayariJones on July 17, 2007 04:03 PM
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Today’s Tombstone Tuesday is a Two-fer to make up for last week’s internet outage. I’m sorry for posting so late but this has been quite a day—I lost my keys and then a mishap involving a Ceasar salad destroyed my digital camera! Nevertheless, I was able to visit Heyward Studio and grab a few snaps. The studio is currently occupied by Lisa Howorth who was nice enough to let me have a look-see—which was especially nice since her studio is a live-in.
The Heyward Studio is named to honor Dorothy and Dubose Haeyward who met at MacDowell, fell in love, got married, and collaborated on "Porgy and Bess". The royalties from the novella go to MacDowell.
Earlier today, Lamar sent me a poem by Audre Lorde to encourage me during my writer’s “break.” It seems like karma that I found Audre Lorde’s signature on the wall. (To read the poem, go to the comments.) While I was there, I found lots of really good names. The late Lucy Grealy, author of Autobiography of A Face used this space toward the end of her life. Another former occupant is Etheridge Knight who identified himself as “Black Revolutionary Poet”…. in 1983. You got to love the true-believers.
you can check out the full collection of tombstone pics here.
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And underneath Audre's name is Claude Brown, who wrote Manchild In The Promised Land. We were at MacDowell together during my first residency in 1986. I remember being in total awe of him. After all, that was a book we all read in High School in NYC. He was friends with an older painter named Anne Tabachnik.
July 18, 2007 02:16 PM