{"id":176479694,"date":"2019-07-18T00:12:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T05:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176479694"},"modified":"2019-07-18T00:12:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T05:12:46","slug":"essay-nommo-literary-society-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2019\/07\/18\/essay-nommo-literary-society-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"ESSAY: Nommo Literary Society Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_176479695\" style=\"width: 930px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176479695\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176479695\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/nommo-920x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/nommo-920x576.jpg 920w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/nommo-920x576-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/nommo-920x576-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-176479695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>12Dec2015 \u2013 mini-reunion Nommo Literary Society\u2014 with Freddi Evans, Jarvis DeBerry, Kalamu Salaam, Nadir Lasana Bomani, Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani, Marian Moore and Kysha Brown-Robinson at Community Book Center.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It was August. We were preparing to celebrate 10 years of being together every week. We would study, announce upcoming issues and events, and then share our creative work. What a glorious September it proved not to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">We were a workshop of Black writers in New Orleans, a bit giddy about the upcoming decade celebration. And then Katrina hit. And that was the end of it. Occasionally we would briefly reconvene to celebrate, usually at Community Book Center over on Bayou Road, were we often held monthly public readings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On this Saturday, July 20, 2019, 2pm at Community Book Center, 2523 Bayou Road (two blocks from Esplanade and Broad streets), there will be a celebratory reading by a healthy gathering of some of the original members of the Nommo Literary Society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If you can, prepare to be there. Who knows when it will happen again. May be the last time. I don&#8217;t know. But I do know this will be quite a public soiree, will be a grand and glorious gathering of old friends reading and sharing selected work. Something old. Something new. Y&#8217;all know how we like to do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">&#8211;Kalamu ya Salaam<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was August. We were preparing to celebrate 10 years of being together every week. We would study, announce upcoming issues and events, and then share our creative work. What a glorious September it proved not to be. We were a workshop of Black writers in New Orleans, a bit giddy about the upcoming decade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176479694"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176479694"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176479694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176479698,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176479694\/revisions\/176479698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176479694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176479694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176479694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}