Who are your most influential mentors? In the early 1970’s I was young, gifted, and Black living in New York City and beginning to find my voice as a writer. At a poetry reading, I gave a sheaf of poems…
What did your parents tell you that you could be? My mother Beatrice Lee Reid and my father Francis Sherman Golden made me a writer. 📚 My mother told me when I was 12 years old that one day I…
This year I am celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the publication of my debut book the memoir Migrations of the Heart. I consider the publication of that book to be the official launching of my career as writer and teacher…
Be Your Mentor I hit the mentor jackpot early. In my twenties, while living young gifted, and Black in New York City, I met the groundbreaking feminist poet Audre Lorde, and the master teacher, poet, and social activist June Jordan.…
