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Indians Once Roamed This Land…, Mwalim (Morgan James Peters)
Indians Once Roamed This Land…, Mwalim (Morgan James Peters)
Trotter Review
The sun sat high in the cloudless, early summer sky. Jerry held his breath as Ryan punched the gas, jumping onto Route 3 a few feet ahead of an incoming tractor-trailer. Ryan laughed as the angry truck driver blasted his air horn at them as the ’79 Aspen rocketed up the highway. The ramp onto Route 3 didn’t leave much room for traffic to merge; leaving the brave to shoot out onto the highway and the timid to sit and wait for an opening, often to the angry blaring of horns behind them, pushing them to jump onto the highway. …
Her Thirteen Black Soldiers, Archibald H. Grimké
Her Thirteen Black Soldiers, Archibald H. Grimké
Trotter Review
This poem was first published in 1919 in The Messenger, a monthly magazine
founded and coedited by black labor leader A. Philip Randolph.
Pastor Brunson's Shofar, Richard Tenorio
Pastor Brunson's Shofar, Richard Tenorio
Trotter Review
A short story by Richard Tenorio of sibling love and sacrificed ambition, which is set in Roxbury, traditionally the twentieth-century home territory for blacks in Boston. Today, Roxbury is poised on the lip of gentrification, and blacks in Boston are on the move again, seeking home and security and belonging.
Tribute To Dr. Harold Horton, Trevor L. Clement
Tribute To Dr. Harold Horton, Trevor L. Clement
Trotter Review
Poem by Trevor Clement on the passing of Dr. Harold Willard Horton, Sr., to whom this issue of the Trotter Review is dedicated.
Tough Eloquence, Yusef Komunyakaa
Tough Eloquence, Yusef Komunyakaa
Trotter Review
I began reading Etheridge Knight's poetry in the early 1970s, and what immediately caught my attention was his ability to balance an eloquence and toughness, exhibiting a complex man behind the words. His technique and content were one—the profane alongside the sacred—accomplished without disturbing the poem's tonal congruity and imagistic exactitude. Here was a streetwise poet who loved and revered language. Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes seem to have been his mentors, but Knight appeared to have sprung into the literary world almost fully formed. He had so much control and authority; he was authentic from the onset. …
Uncle Monroe, Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely
Uncle Monroe, Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely
Trotter Review
Poem by Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely, the grandniece of William Monroe Trotter.