Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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Pet and founder of a publishing company

A Poem for Dudley Randall: Poet and Publisher of the Black Arts Movement (A Picture Book Biography) by Don Tate and Laura Freeman

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Outside of saying A Poem for Dudley Randall: Poet and Publisher of the Black Arts Movement (A Picture Book Biography) by Don Tate and illustrated by Laura Freeman is a picture book biography of the man Dudley Randall, you can’t say a lot else about the theme. Sure I could say I read via an online reader copy, it is due in mid September 2026, I enjoyed learning about a person I had never heard of, and with the facts Tate included some of Randall’s […]

Prose, poems and stories

A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne

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While there are a lot of new titles out there, I needed to catch up on some older titles. Books, I keep “meaning to read” and never get around too. I picked up A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne. I thought it was a book in verse, but it is more short essays and diary entries. Or as if someone is interviewing the narrator and they are just replying to questions.  Still, it was short and figured […]

I’ve got the butter knife blues

lues with a Butter Knife: The Unstoppable Music of CeDell Davis by Jason Peterson and R. Gregory Christie

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Out of all the music I enjoy listening to, Blues has never been a top one. However, I appreciate how it has shaped the music world. I appreciate the hard work, troubles that people had to overcome and how it represented (and still does) a world rich in culture. And yes, I like it, there are a few songs I have enjoyed, but it is not my “go to” when it comes to listening. With that said, I know a few of the big names, […]

Black womxnhood

Wash by Ebony Stewart

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Though available, I read via an online reader copy. I did not read all of the poems by Ebony Stewart in their collection Wash. This is because it is difficult to read poetry online for me and second, they were terribly intense and it was not something I really needed to immerse myself in at the time. However, I will find a finshed copy and just sit and read. Stewart has a passionate voice that needs to be slowly enjoyed. And I hope this does […]

Davis lecturing and marching.

Be the Light: How She Became Angela Davis by Daria Peoples

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Do you know who Angela Davis is? If you do, you are one up on me. I had never heard of them, or if I had it was just a footnote in history. And to be honest, Davis deserves to be more than a footnote. She needs her own thousand paged book. Instead I must settle for the clever picture book (currently available but read on line) Be the Light: How She Became Angela Davis written and illustrated by Daria Peoples. Davis was born in […]

Their voices

Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology by Amber McBride, Erica Martin, Taylor Byas and LLC Ashwin Writing

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Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology by Amber McBride, Erica Martin, Taylor Byas and LLC Ashwin Writing (photographer) is getting a lot of press. It will get a lot of awards and a lot more attention before things are said and done. And it deserves all and everything it gets. It is a very lovely collection of poems. We have contemporary poets and classical ones, too. You will know some of the poems and others will […]



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