I’ve been contracted by YourWords STL and I will be facilitating poetry workshops for young women at Mary Grove where “The children and adolescents who are placed at Marygrove have often been through multiple, failed placements in other residential facilities or foster homes.” I’m excited to midw...

On August 5, 2019, writer, editor, and Black genius, Toni Morrison transitioned to ancestorhood. My father knew the iconic writer well. This is a special episode of THE MEMOIR MY DAD WOULDN’T WRITE where he discusses Toni Morrison from his unique point of view. LISTEN HERE:

My dad has seen how stories are shaped by who writes them and who publishes them. As a journalist and expert at almost every level of the field — typesetting, editing, reporting, column production, and sales — his insight into how the 20th century’s news industry shaped culture is fascinating! LI...

I am excited to share 3 wonderful pieces of news. First, I have a new THE MEMOIR MY DAD WOULDN’T WRITE podcast. The Memoir My Dad Wouldn’t Write is a Radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker...

It was the final half of the 1950’s. The U.S. was basking in the glow of its Ozzie and Harriet delusions. It was a culture in deep denial and in no way prepared for the sea change of a decade it was headed toward. In many ways my dad, Eugene B. Redmond was the same. […]

As a man who came of age in the late 1950’s, my father has seen conceptions of manhood evolve and evolve again. In this current political moment, full of revelation and retribution, my father and I talk about how he was “taught” manhood through the examples around him. (Plus we explore the tradit...

The Memoir My Dad Wouldn’t Write is a Radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker. He wouldn’t write a memoir, so this series of conversations is partly that. This is a special remote episo...