Since its historic founding in 1978/79, the Savannah College of Art and Design has served as the starting point, or way station, for numerous creative artists who are now well-known. Among them are diversely-talented individuals like: Grammy-winning singer-songwriter India.Arie, actor and internet celebrity Benjamin Brian Castro, Swedish Singer Peg Parnevik, comic book artist Sean Murphy, and Emmy-winning productions designer Maria Garcia, Similarly, former faculty members like the iconic painter Suzanne Jackson, the late Vogue fashion editor-at-large André Leon Talley (1948-2022), and artist Virginia Jackson Kiah (1911-2001).
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What many do not know is that the famous school once distributed a weekly newspaper called The Georgia Guardian which, during the 1990s, published a wide range of literary essays, books reviews, short fiction, and poetry by Aberjhani. Some were later published in books such as I Made My Boy Out of Poetry and ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love. Listed below are titles of the works arranged by the last published in The Georgia Guardian, before it eventually ceased publication, to the first. Images of newspaper clippings in photo carousel contain texts of writings.
- February 24, 1995: Poem "We Sang This for Shekhem" republished in I Made MY Boy Out of Poetry.
- December 22, 1994: :Literary review of Jeff Guinn’s Santa’s Autobiography “Enchantment Spanning Centuries.”
- August 12, 1994: Literary essay "[Audre] Lorde and [Rosemary] Daniell: a Tale of Two Poets" reviews of Lorde’s The Marvelous Arithmetic’s of Distance and Daniell’s A Sexual Tour of The Deep South.
- July 7 1994: Literary review of [Octavia] Butler’s Parable of The Sower, “A Powerful Tale of the Future.”
- June 17, 1994: “An Interview with Janice Daugharty.”
June 3, 1994: Literary review of Janice Daugharty’s Dark of the Moon, “Shines With Brilliance.” - February 25, 1994: Poem "Family Reunion: Remembering the Ancestors (In Addition to My Blackness)" later republished in I Made My Boy Out of Poetry, ESSENCE Magazine, and ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love.
- February 14, 1994: Short fiction "Kidnapped by Bliss."
- 1993: Poems "Past, Present & Future are One (after a painting by Luther E. Vann)" and "The Light, That Never Dies." Both republished in ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love.
- October 8, 1993: Literary review "The Life & Grace of Arthur Ashe" on Arnold Rampersad’s and Arthur Ashe’s Days of Grace.
- September 24, 1993: Short fiction "Me, Jason, the Beautiful One."
- August 6, 1993: Literary review of Ben Okri’s The Famished Road: “Odyssey Through African Boyhood.”
- July 2, 1993: Poem "Thoughts on the Future" and literary review of Isabel Allende’s novel The Infinite Plan: “A Romantic Survey of American Diversity.”
- May 28, 1993: Short fiction "Elijah’s Skin."
- April 1993: Literary essay on The Immoralist: “The Love and Evil of Andre Gide.”
- March 12, 1993: Literary essay on The Subterraneans: “Revisited: Checking Out Jack Kerouac in the Age of Multiculturalism.”
Bright Skylark Aberjhani Archives
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