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A More Open Door

1 Mar 20231 Mar 2023
In January, I presented “A More Open Door: Teaching & Advising Undocumented Students” to faculty and staff at my college. The focus of my presentation was to highlight the unique…
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Fayetteville Tech in Context: Updated

17 Aug 202217 Aug 2022
One of my first major academic labors in my career at FTCC, the presentation has now been updated to reflect 2020 census data and other changes. The updated version can…
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Time after Time: Overlay Photography

24 Jul 20211 Mar 2023
A gallery of past on present Fayetteville, North Carolina. Project begun summer 2018 and will continue to be updated. Winslow Street looking north toward the Amtrak Station, 1942 and 2018.…
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Learning to Kill: Rosemary Daniell’s poem “Fort Bragg” and the murder of Vanessa Guillen

13 Jul 2021
While some of Rosemary Daniell’s 1988 book Fort Bragg and Other Points South is written in a haze of sensuality and playful lust, the poem “Fort Bragg” prefigures the environment…
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The Accident: Flash Fiction

12 Dec 202024 Jul 2021
They stayed in the house. Columns of brick at intervals keeping it off the ground. They stayed in the house. Elijah didn’t need to see it to know it was…
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Burden

17 Nov 2020
Last year I completed the first draft, a very rough first draft, of a stageplay. I have no real intention of seeing it produced, much less sending it out for…
history…

Trouble at Bragg

29 Jun 20208 Jul 2021
Night of Terror Early in the morning of 6 August 1941, 500 Black soldiers lay on the ground of the prison yard at Fort Bragg. For five hours they were…
Genealogy

Inheritance: Clotile’s Story

1 Dec 20198 Jul 2021
Home Movie There's a home movie from 1964 which begins with Christmas scenes of children playing with toys in grainy but vivid color. Without warning, at about the ten-second mark,…
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Diary of the Nazi Years

1 Jun 20191 Mar 2023
I'm reading the 1933-1945 diaries of Victor Klemperer, a German academic of Jewish descent. Though a Christian for practical purposes, Klemperer's "ethnic" Judaism and his detailed, personal writing make his…
Poetry

transit: a poem

27 Dec 201825 Jul 2021
"Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar."* ~ Gloria Anzaldúa -------------------------------------- america is full of ancient children who spit their cage-earned cough on our meticulous brick sidewalks, who…

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