Dashboard Horus: A Bird's Eye View of the Universe

                                                                    Photograph of James Baldwin from the Carl Van Vechten Collection Writer/designer, Pam Ward just released her poetry book Between Good Men & No Man At All , World Stage Press. She’s published two novels, Want Some Get Some , and Bad Girls Burn Slow , Kensington. A UCLA graduate, recipient of a California Arts Council Fellow, and Pushcart Poetry Nominee, Pam has published in Chiron, Calyx, Voices of Leimert Park and the LA Times and is currently writing a novel about her aunt & the Black Dahlia Murder. Contemplating Baldwin Inside Café de Flore             “For every James Baldwin, there are a whole lot of corpses, a lot of people who went under.” -“ James Baldwin Baldwin almost did it, once.  B...

  Writer/designer, Pam Ward just released her poetry book Between Good Men & No Man At All, World Stage Press. She’s published two novels, Want Some Get Some , and Bad Girls Burn Slow Kensington. A UCLA graduate, recipient of a California Arts Council Fellow, and Pushcart Poetry Nominee, Pam has published in Chiron, Calyx, Voices of Leimert Park and the LA Times and is currently writing a novel about her aunt & the Black Dahlia Murder. Le Revue Negre     for Josephine Baker Before Baldwin lifted a suitcase  before Chester Himes escaped Josephine packed her bags & skipped off to France  severing ties with America  an umbilical cord  strangling her neck she boarded a ship bailed the US like bailing the back hand of a bad, brutal marriage. This Nubian princess. This queen of the bait & switch had everyone going bananas examining how yellow fruit curves dancing nude, except for  her produce-section skirt fifteen g...