Joe offers nothing less than a program for stepping outside our physical reality and into a new world

you’d hear

drinking boxed wine

Inside Howard Street Cemetery

often as early as the preschool years

Let Reason Roll: Race, Religion & Reflections Lance Armstrong Joe offers nothing less than"Let Reason Roll: Race, Religion and Reflections" is the poetry debut of Elmer Beard, a lifelong freedom fighter and retired English professor. The work features 83 poems and eight decades of portraits that take a poignant look at life and death through the eyes of an African American octogenarian. Beard, the Octo Griot, begins this literary journey with a prayer and ends with a eulogy in "When We Die." The southern storyteller reminisces about rural