Shirlette Ammons was born and raised in Mt. Olive, NC and is the author of Stumphole: Aunthology of Backwoods Blood (Big Drum Press, 2002), and a children’s book, The Train That Needed An [...]
(for fela anikulapo-kuti and his “music written in blood”) blak- mouthed mansion full of furious fight chants; balconies where lectric blues basslines commune wit revolution’s seductive [...]