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    • Ode to the Good Black Boots that Served My Soul So Well (poem by Aberjhani)
    • Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
    • Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao: Verse 1
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    • Iconic Authors Toni Morrison's and Harper Lee's New Works Likely to Influence Dialogues on Race
    • Red Summer: Text and Meaning in Claude McKay’s poem ‘If We Must Die’” part 1 of special 4-part series by Aberjhani
    • A Writer's Journey to Selma, Alabama
    • Justice Remains Elusive in Case of Newly-freed Louis C. Taylor (Part 1 of 2)
    • Sensualized Transcendence: Editorial and Poem on the Art of Jaanika Talts (Part 1)
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THE SCAD YEARS

“That truth can endure and earn its place in history.”
     ––Former Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) Georgia Guardian Newspaper motto.

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).

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.”
Please note that this listing is about much more than acknowledging a single creative’s contributions to the cultural arts in his hometown during a specific period. It is largely about honoring the motto (at the top of this page) that inspired the above efforts in the first place and responding, all these years later, to the call in this dawning age of AI for what is being referred to as “Authenticity in Content.”  This is one record of such content before the issue became an issue.

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  • Bright Skylark Literary Productions Sitemap
  • Author Statement
    • Blog: Visionary Vibes >
      • Aberjhani - Author Biography
      • The SCAD Years
      • The National African American Cultural Arts Examiner Years 2009-2016
      • Bright Skylark News Notes
      • Blog: Cultural Arts Reviews and Remembrances
      • Blog: Sonic Delight Music Reviews >
        • Summer-Song Rhapsody for Michael Jackson: Editorial with Poem
      • Shifting Points of View and the Massacre in Charleston, South Carolina (USA) >
        • Author-Poet Aberjhani in the News
      • 7 Ways to Help Replace Legislated Fear with Informed Compassion
    • Greeting Flannery O'Connor at the Back Door of My Mind >
      • Tribute to Savannah Author Robert T.S. Mickles Sr.
    • Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah >
      • Podcast Prospects 504
      • More Books by Aberjhani >
        • Readers & Reviewers on the Writings of Aberjhani
        • Checking in at Goodreads
        • Editing Credits
        • ELEMENTAL: The Power of Illuminated Love (Art and Poetry Gift Book)
        • The River of Winged Dreams
        • The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois
        • Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player: A Novel by Aberjhani
        • I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
        • Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
        • Buy Books by Aberjhani on Amazon
        • 10th Anniversary of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
  • AI Literary Chat Salon
  • Carousel of Sustainable Compassion
  • Working Scribe Carousel Number 2
    • Awards & Honors
    • My LinkedIn Portfolio Sampler
    • Pop Icon Michael Jackson in Life & Legend
    • Creative Thinkers International
  • Art and Poster Store
    • Blog: Silk-Featherbrush Art and Style
    • Postered Poetics
    • Your Introduction to Original Silk-Featherbrush Art & Style
  • Choose a Cultural Arts Heritage Project to Support
  • Working Scribe Image Carousel 2
  • About Bright Skylark Literary Productions
    • Bright Skylark Values and Motto
  • Famous Quotes of Note
    • Pinterest Page of Quotations
  • Charter for a More Compassionate World
  • As a Poet Thinketh: Poetry by Aberjhani
    • The Bridge of Silver Wings
    • Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao by Aberjhani
    • Ode to the Good Black Boots that Served My Soul So Well (poem by Aberjhani)
    • Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
    • Rainbow-Song for the Angel of Tao: Verse 1
  • Articles and Essays
    • Abbreviated Minds in the News for Wreaking Havoc Worldwide editorial by Aberjhani
    • Iconic Authors Toni Morrison's and Harper Lee's New Works Likely to Influence Dialogues on Race
    • Red Summer: Text and Meaning in Claude McKay’s poem ‘If We Must Die’” part 1 of special 4-part series by Aberjhani
    • A Writer's Journey to Selma, Alabama
    • Justice Remains Elusive in Case of Newly-freed Louis C. Taylor (Part 1 of 2)
    • Sensualized Transcendence: Editorial and Poem on the Art of Jaanika Talts (Part 1)
    • Realms of Emerging Light (Sensualized Transcendence Editorial and Poem on the Art of Jaanika Talts Part 2)
    • Notes on the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
    • Why Race Mattered in Barack Obama's Re-Election: Editorial and Poem
    • Posted Perspectives on America's 2012 Presidential Election
    • 47 Percenters and Guerrilla Decontextualization: Dreamers and Nightmares
    • Considering Michael Clarke Duncan: Big Black Man Within A Nonsociopoliticohistorical Context (Editorial with Poem)
  • Video Pen & Ink
  • Links and Connections
    • Aberjhani's Guerrilla Decontextualization
  • Contact the Author
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