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PARNESHIA

Memory between the lines gives the poem a soul

About Me

Parneshia Starling is a Chicago writer and a member of the Affrilachian Poets. Her awards include the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award and the Margaret Walker Short Story Award. She has been published in several anthologies including, Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas and Limestone: A Journal of Art and Literature.

Parneshia is currently co-editing and anthology entitled Women.Period: Women Writing about Menstruation to be published by Spinsters Ink Press (2008). She has conducted poetry and publishing workshops all over the country including Columbia College in Chicago, Vanderbilt University, Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts, and Northwestern University. She has an MFA from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky and is currently working on her first poetry collection, Compasses and Juke Joints


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My Interests

Writing, writing and more writing. READING, Friday midnight movies, FAMILY, islands, oceans, Lake Michigan, my mama's fried catfish, pencils, long dirt roads, juke joints, skyscrapers!!!

I'd like to meet:

Elsie Smith (Guardian Angel), Lula Starling (Angel), Gwendolyn Brooks (Angel), Delores Kendrick, Carolyn Rodgers, Writers, people who love food, traveling folks, and folks who love land and family.




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Music:



The Very Best Of Nina Simone, 1967-1972 : Sugar In My Bowl
Greatest
Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track
Rapture
I Feel for You

Back to Black
What's Going on
The Very Best of Aretha Franklin: The 60's
Supernatural
Home

Cooleyhighharmony
II
Break Every Rule
The Ike & Tina Turner Revue Live
Forty Licks

Embrya
Salt
From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music
Off the Wall
Thriller

Traveling Miles
New Moon Daughter
The Very Best of (Curtis Mayfield)
50th Anniversary Collection
Beloved: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The Kennedy Experience
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Movies:



The Addams Family / Addams Family Values
The Witches
Nobody's Fool
Labyrinth
Dances with Wolves (Full Screen Theatrical Edition)

A Time to Kill
Harlem Nights
Robin Harris' Bebe's Kids
Cornbread, Earl & Me
Enter the Dragon [Blu-ray]

The Witches of Eastwick
Enemies, A Love Story
Foxy Brown
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Television:




Books:


Fuel: Poems (American Poets Continuum , No 47)
The Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (A Far Corner Book)
The Lovely Bones: A Novel
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (Cave Canem Anthology)
The Known World
How Shall We Tell Each Other of the Poet?: The Life and Writing of Muriel Rukeyser
Irrawaddy Tango
The Coffin Tree
Still Waters in Niger (Triquarterly Books)
Black Box
Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York (Kentucky Voices, 3)
Affrilachia: Poems by Frank X Walker
Tougaloo Blues
Water Street
Blackberries, Blackberries
Black Branches (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary)
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (Crossing Press Feminist Series)
The Book of Light
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
Gorilla, My Love
The Lava of This Land: South African Poetry 1960-1996
Swing Shift: "All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s
Night
The Snow Fox: A Novel
By the Light of My Father's Smile
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Heroes:

MY MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER, ELSIE SMITH, Iliana El-Khailani, Gwendolyn Brooks, Every writer who does the word justice, books, and POETRY.