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Courtenay Kantanka

Courtenay Kantanka is a native Memphian (Tennessee) and so is rooted in smoked turkey for Thanksgiving, high-stepping majorettes in parades, and history holding your hand as you walk down the street. She now resides in Kansas City, MO and her work appears in 1619 Speaks: An Anthology of African-American Poets, Ekstasis Magazine and Pleiades.

Dallas Street, Orange Mound 1994

Nobody burns leaves in Orange Mound. Nostalgia smells like wet grass and dirt under brand new sneakers squeaking across linoleum hallways hurrying to home room on the first day of school. It smells like burnt hardwood, cherry or apple, and …

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