By Poor William CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI – VIDEO AND PHOTO GALLERY IN POST – Clarksdale will host it’s 20th Tennessee Williams Festival this weekend, October 12-13, 2012. The event, sponsored by Coahoma Community College (CCC), kicks off at 9:00 a.m. on Friday at the Whiteside Lecture Hall on the Coahoma Community College main campus and concludes […]
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Y’ALL!! Clarksdale Festival, October 12-13, 2012
October 11, 2012 Leave a Comment
32nd Annual Mississippi Picnic in Central Park – Reported by new Delta Bohemian, Semi-Fixture, Journalist and Soon To Be Documentarian Erickson EB Blakney
June 15, 2011 6 Comments
By New Delta Bohemian, Semi-Fixture, Journalist and Soon-To-Be Documentarian Erickson “EB” Blakney →PHOTOS INCLUDED← (New York, New York) There was a lot to shout about at the 32nd Annual Mississippi Picnic in Central Park on Saturday June 11th: foot-stomping blues from guitarist Eddie Cotton, Jr. and his band, the ‘Artists’ Tent’ featuring Mississippi artists, the 500 […]
Watcha Gonna Do? Posted 3-24-11
March 23, 2011 Leave a Comment
Watcha Gonna Do? Posted 3-24-11 Watcha Gonna Do in and around Clarksdale/Coahoma County this week? PLUS Enjoy some photos taken out and about last week at Ground Zero‘s St. Patrick’s Day Celebration and Fundraiser for Jonestown Family Center and Curtis Wilkie, author of Fall of the House of Zeus at TURNROW BOOK COMPANY in […]
Watcha Gonna Do? Posted 3-17-11
March 17, 2011 Leave a Comment
Watcha Gonna Do? Posted 3-17-11 Watcha Gonna Do in Clarksdale/Coahoma County this week?
Delta Delusions: Reflections at Cutrer: A Ghost from the Past
February 24, 2011 4 Comments
By POOR WILLIAM CLARKSDALE, Mississippi NOTE: The following fictional story was the winner in the 2008 Delta Writer’s Association’s Tennessee Williams Festival Writing Contest. It was published in the Clarksdale Press Register in October 2008. What is it about familiar spirits—a Judeo-Christian concept, which holds that evil spirits can and do present themselves to select […]
Selected Scenes from the Clarksdale Film Festival
February 3, 2011 4 Comments
Selected Scenes from the 1st Annual Clarksdale Film Festival The 1st Annual Clarksdale Film Festival was held in the downtown area last weekend. It included an array of short and full length films, most thematically grounded in Mississippi Delta realism. The festival included performances by local Delta blues musicians. Prom Night in Mississippi and ESPN’s […]
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