From: Sally Miller <derbymiller>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 18:01:46 -0400

I am afraid I don't understand. I am not knowledgeable about PEN, but it sounds as if you think they have done something offensive. Please explain. Sally Derby
----- Original Message ----From: To: Subscribers of ccbc-net Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 2:34 PM Subject: [ccbc-net] re pen arrogance:


first youth lit panel with virginia and walter dean(the absolutely revolutionary arrogance of two separate and equally observant and thoughtful black voices!!) and a novelist from chi bankrupcy/comfort of easy listenin/my home sweet home: dozens of afrikanisher-american and his/her-spaniching and asian and asian and amerindian and indianindian...and and beyond writers and illustrators to critics like dianne johnson and compilations to child/book/council to some place in plain sight and obvious where we really just have to look and smile evensilently because it is a g i v e n that the emporer is naked can measure the size of the tokens and weigh their worth...and for this panel not even a token into the slot of reality: will you lay that umbrage(oi!) )and who will spit disgust onto the clean white pages of business-as-usual: not/will not represent the multiplicity of visions and voices: to take a step beyond langston's phrase "name in print"and the merely filling of slots and spaces and val id it ee is not on...
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