Category: Commentary Corner

• Rites

  

  “My mother performed rites over me. Wrapped me in her wishes for pure and wholesome sweet. ”

  Tahirah Walker

  April 8, 2022

  Commentary Corner, First Drafts, Poetry, Tahirah Wrote This

  BBL Essentials

• No Really, How Does It Feel?

  

  That time in the year 2000 when my sweet Beatle boy type friend went with me to a D’Angelo concert.

  Tahirah Walker

  March 17, 2022

  BBL Essentials, Commentary Corner, Essays, First Drafts, Reflections, Tahirah Wrote This

  Black women writers, concert memories, looking back

• Dear Kiese Laymon

  

  I’m still writing letters to writers. Sometimes they are long. That’s gonna have to be ok right now.

  Tahirah Walker

  January 10, 2022

  Books Books Books, Commentary Corner, Ten Most Read

• Flowers and Butterflies, A Rainbow Lives Beside It

  

  A first draft poem on the fates of promises.

  Tahirah Walker

  January 6, 2022

  Commentary Corner, First Drafts, Poetry

  Black women writers, first drafts, Poetry

• The Way We Pay

  

  I’m working on a short story called The Way We Pay. It’s about the weeks leading up to a tween girl deciding that she wants to become a writer.

  Tahirah Walker

  December 22, 2021

  Commentary Corner, First Drafts, Short Stories

• Clear Mind Lacking Ceremony

  

  Pining for love and finding it.

  Tahirah Walker

  November 27, 2021

  Commentary Corner, First Drafts, Poetry

  couples, Leonardo’s Bride, looking back, love, music, Poetry, relationship failure, staying together

• wonder woman

  

  Processing the intersection.

  Tahirah Walker

  November 17, 2021

  Career Thoughts, Commentary Corner, Equity and Inclusion, First Drafts, Poetry, Reflections, Self Care

  intersectionality, Poetry, racism

• A Leopard or A Whale Maybe

  

  Brittany Hailer’s Animal You’ll Surely Become is just perfect!

  Tahirah Walker

  August 9, 2021

  Books Books Books, Commentary Corner, Reflections, Ten Most Read

• To Yardstick

  

  A poem about schooling.

  Tahirah Walker

  May 27, 2021

  Commentary Corner, First Drafts, Poetry

  academic achievement, schooling, villanelle

• Dear Brian Broome

  

  A Love Letter for Punch Me Up to The Gods

  Tahirah Walker

  May 25, 2021

  BBL Essentials, Books Books Books, Commentary Corner, Gratitude, Letters, Reflections

  Black writers, Brian Broome, Memoirs