tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2300613470418749272024-03-12T21:17:13.730-07:00Celestial Blue SkiesZelvin Collins Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06992019065979873858noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230061347041874927.post-88774793949578366422022-12-31T17:27:00.000-08:002022-12-31T17:27:07.049-08:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="409" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uXY_IcvbUE4" width="492" youtube-src-id="uXY_IcvbUE4"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Zelvin Collins Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06992019065979873858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230061347041874927.post-69123776739965139552017-07-22T21:22:00.001-07:002017-07-22T21:22:40.031-07:00Of Love and Dust was a great novel. It is about a man who is bonded out by a plantation owner, and he must work off his debt. Marcus is not your average African-American. He doesn't abide by the rules like many others. He falls for the overseer's wife, and he courts her. You keep wondering they are going to get caught. Bonbon is the overseer and he works Marcus hard. He is in love with an African-American woman. He has two children for her. They are bad twins. He knows he can never be with her legally. Marcus and his wife are in love and they try to go up North. The novel keeps you in suspense. It is a great Southern novel. It is about love and dust. The dusty road that leads you to the plantation and gets stirred up just like Marcus stirs up things on this plantation. It has a lot of great Southern nicknames. It is a good read. I would recommend it.<br />
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This is my son's new book. It is a good, short read. You can get it on amazon.Zelvin Collins Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06992019065979873858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230061347041874927.post-71871903493650335422015-07-17T19:41:00.001-07:002015-07-17T19:41:46.578-07:00<a href="http://krvs.org/post/apres-midi-july-2-2015-celestial-blue-skies-author-maggie-collins">http://krvs.org/post/apres-midi-july-2-2015-celestial-blue-skies-author-maggie-collins</a>Zelvin Collins Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06992019065979873858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230061347041874927.post-89836805939236113182015-06-19T21:50:00.001-07:002015-06-19T21:50:46.444-07:00Celestial Blue Skies Interview 1 on Acadiana Open Channel<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JwgGbwEcKyE" width="459"></iframe>Zelvin Collins Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06992019065979873858noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230061347041874927.post-29821583761202801972015-06-12T07:53:00.002-07:002015-06-12T07:53:22.118-07:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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The recession has taken a toll on
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the characters grew on me. This is a great literary novel. It is about family,
friends, and neighbors and coming together. It’s about love overcoming
obstacles and individuals being in tune with the universe and their
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Maggie Collins’ mesmerizing novel takes us deep into the hearts and minds of a Louisiana creole family struggling to maintain their dignity and traditional values within an uncompromising world full of poverty, superstition, and intolerance. Celeste, the main character, must navigate through the rigid cultural code demanded from her family as she strives to transcend the bad reputation her mother has acquired in the community. She soon learns that those demands, although at times brutal and suffocating in the hands of her grandmother and matriarch, Maymay, come from a source of genuine love and caring. The values she learns from her family are what eventually guide her towards a stronger sense of self and a better, self-fulfilling life. A fabulous read, full of engaging complex characters and fascinating situations, Celestial Blue Skies, invites us to consider that at times the only type of love that can help us survive is an exacting, fierce one.
--J.L. Torres, author of The Accidental Native and Boricua Passport Editor Saranac Review<br />
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Maggie Collins writes about real people who live on the page. Celeste Bastille is a young woman who will win the reader and stay in her memory. Most of the characters are as vivid as Celeste and they are a family. As much as you want Celeste to find happiness in her own life, the family needs her. Collins weaves a tale as intriguing as the folktale that is the basis for the book. Celeste earns her Celestial Blue Sky. ~ Lee Grue, Editor, The New Laurel Review<br />
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It isn't often that I get to visit Creole homes in southwest Louisiana and just listen. I like to tell my friends here in Europe that New Orleans is a city of tribes who are more or less friendly to one another. Within the black community there are tribes with complex differences, within the white community there are tribes. But the tribe I love the most is the tribe of the heart. Ms. Collins is surely part of that. Celestial Blue Skies is a book of the heart. It describes a Creole family in southwest Louisiana some few years ago, with the authority of an insider. I found myself peering through watery eyes a number of times. Truthful books touch you that way.
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<b>Praise from Other Readers</b><br />
<span class="userContent">This book had me shaking at Chapter 3. I haven't read something like this since Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden.</span><br />
<span class="userContent">Debbie Knatt Jones</span><br />
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<span class="readable" id="reviewTextContainer932936751"><span id="freeText7019581531584127251">Growing
up in Louisiana in a small town and a Creole family, I was able to
relate to this book. Of course it had the boudin, crackling, hot crawfish
and crabs, the sugar cane and the Zydeco music that we Creoles love,
but most of all, it had the love of family Maymay is like so many creole
women I know. She holds the family together durning a crisis.<br />
If I could tell the author anything, I would tell her thank you for
writing this book because it reminded me of the love that I had with my grandmother. I had a digital copy but my son got me a hard copy for
Mother's Day. Truthfully this is one of the best books I have read in a
long time.</span></span> <br />
Terry Noel<br />
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In Belle Place, Louisiana, where the sugarcane grows a mile high to the bright blue sky, Celeste struggles with her mentally ill mother, Tut, and works with her grandmother Maymay to hold the Creole Bastille family together. Celeste has bigger dreams for her life, and is falling for the handsome and wealthy Vashan. But, when Tut runs away to live with the man she met working in the sugarcane to escape her reputation as the town whore, Maymay fears that Celeste will end up like her mother. And just as things are finally looking up for Tut, her past returns with violent, tragic results. Will Celeste end up like her mother, or will she redeem her family from the hoodoo curse that haunts them? And will she find love with someone from a culture just as exotic as her own?</div>
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Maggie Collins was born and raised under the clear blue skies of Loreauville, Louisiana. She majored in English at the University of Louisiana and later earned a Master's degree from the University of New Orleans. An excerpt of this novel was published in "Louisiana Cultural Vistas" and was a 2009 finalist for the worldwide William Faulkner William Wisdom writing contest. She is a Center for Black Literature fellow and an Educational Diagnostician. She lives with her two sons and wonderful husband<br />
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Reviews Maggie Collins’ mesmerizing novel takes us deep into the hearts and minds of a Louisiana creole family struggling to maintain their dignity and traditional values within an uncompromising world full of poverty, superstition, and intolerance. Celeste, the main character, must navigate through the rigid cultural code demanded from her family as she strives to transcend the bad reputation her mother has acquired in the community. She soon learns that those demands, although at times brutal and suffocating in the hands of her grandmother and matriarch, Maymay, come from a source of genuine love and caring. The values she learns from her family are what eventually guide her towards a stronger sense of self and a better, self-fulfilling life. A fabulous read, full of engaging complex characters and fascinating situations, Celestial Blue Skies, invites us to consider that at times the only type of love that can help us survive is an exacting, fierce one.<br />
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--J.L. Torres, author of The Accidental Native and Boricua Passport Editor Saranac Review<br />
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Maggie Collins writes about real people who live on the page. Celeste Bastille is a young woman who will win the reader and stay in her memory. Most of the characters are as vivid as Celeste and they are a family. As much as you want Celeste to find happiness in her own life, the family needs her. Collins weaves a tale as intriguing as the folktale that is the basis for the book. Celeste earns her Celestial Blue Sky. ~ Lee Grue, Editor, The New Laurel Review<br />
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It isn't often that I get to visit Creole homes in southwest Louisiana and just listen. I like to tell my friends here in Europe that New Orleans is a city of tribes who are more or less friendly to one another. Within the black community there are tribes with complex differences, within the white community there are tribes. But the tribe I love the most is the tribe of the heart. Ms. Collins is surely part of that. Celestial Blue Skies is a book of the heart. It describes a Creole family in southwest Louisiana some few years ago, with the authority of an insider. I found myself peering through watery eyes a number of times. Truthful books touch you that way.<br />
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">Maggie Collins writes about real people who live on the page.Celeste Bastille is
a young woman who will win the reader and stay in her memory. Most of the
characters are as vivid as Celeste and they are a family. As much as you want
Celeste to find happiness in her own life, the family needs her. Collins weaves
a tale as intriguing as the folk tale which is the basis for the book. Celeste
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<span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><br />Lee Grue New Orleans poet and
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Lee Meitzen Grue is a Louisiana poet and fiction writer,
who often writes about New Orleans culture and music. Her published books are:
<i>Trains and Other Intrusions: Poems; French Quarter Poems; In The Sweet
Balance of The Flesh;</i> and <i>Goodbye, Silver, Silver Cloud</i>, a collection
of New Orleans stories. A spoken word CD with jazz accompaniment "Live! On
Frenchmen Street" was released in 2000. Performing with jazz or reading without
accompaniment, Grue has appeared in night clubs: The Knitting Factory in New
York, Snug Harbor, and True Brew in New Orleans. and at literary festivals: The
Tennessee Williams and Faulkner Festivals, and Jazz Fest in New Orleans. As a
Visiting Writer, she has conducted seminars and performed her work at La
Universidad de Barcelona in Spain; at Librairie, an English language bookstore
in Paris, Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, and at the University of
Hawai'i at Manoa at an international symposium on “The Literature of Place" She
has translated the work of Mexican poet David Huerta as part of “Bridging The
Gulf”an exchange of four Mexico City poets and four new Orleans poets. The
recipient of an NEA Fellowship; prizes in poetry and fiction from Deep South
Writers; The Associated Writing Programs; and A PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize,
Grue has taught at Tulane University, Westminster College, and Xavier
University. She is the former Director of The New Orleans Poetry Forum and The
First Backyard Poetry Theater and long time editor of The New Laurel Review.
Grue is a member of The Authors Guild and is listed in Who’s Who in America and
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homes in southwest Louisiana and just listen. I like to tell my friends here in
Europe, that New Orleans is a city of tribes who are more or less friendly to
one another. Within the black community there are tribes with complex
differences, within the white community there are tribes. But the tribe I love
the most is the tribe of the heart. Ms. Collins is surely part of
that.<i>Celestial Blue Skies</i> is a book of the heart<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">. </span>It describes a Creole family in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>southwest Louisiana some few years ago, with
the authority of an insider. I found myself peering through watery eyes a
number of times. Truthful books touch you that way.</span></div>
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<span lang="DA">Gordon Walmsley</span></div>
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<span lang="DA">author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Daisy,
The Alchemical Adventures of a New Orleans Hermaphrodite</i></span></div>
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<b>Gordan Walmsley</b>, an internationally acclaimed poet, is author
the new poetically constructed novel,<b> <i>Daisy, The Alchemical Adventures of a New Orleans
Hermaphrodite</i></b>, published in October, 2013 in Denmark as a limited
edition. The book, written partially in prose, partially in verse, has been
described by Lee Froehlich, Managing Editor of Playboy, as the "undaisiest of
daisys." Gordon grew up in New Orleans ane was graduated from Princeton
University and Tulane Law School and has been writing poetry ever since. His
latest book of poems <i><b>Echoes of a River, Poems of New Orleans and
Beyond</b></i>, was published in Ireland by Salmon. <i>The Irish Times</i>
wrote: “Walmsley’sspirit of compassion and empathy shines through the pages. The
shorter echo poems that are placed like waves in the volume lend a visual
interpretative layer that helps the collection in imparting more complex
readings ("something can arise / from a wave that falls / among the sounding
words". Gordan is married to a Dane and has been living in Denmark for many
years. Apart from writing poetry, he edits <a href="http://www.copenhagenreview.com/">www.copenhagenreview.com</a> which
features a span of excellent writers from relatively unknown aspirants to Nobel
Prize winners. He has translated a number of poets from German, Swedish,
Norwegian, and Danish, including Tomas Tranströmer, Inger Christiansen and
Katarina Frostenson.</div>
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Zelvin Collins Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06992019065979873858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230061347041874927.post-70525225904312578952014-03-16T21:49:00.003-07:002014-03-16T21:49:51.828-07:00Moray Olivier and Mattie Auzenne won the $25 Amazon Gift Cards. CONGRATULATIONS.Zelvin Collins Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06992019065979873858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230061347041874927.post-45337300922105429232014-03-05T18:08:00.000-08:002014-03-06T20:37:01.480-08:00Celestial Blue Skies Cover Reveal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Celestial
Blue Skies</i> is a coming of age story about young Creole and biracial Celeste
who lives in poverty with her mentally ill mother, her grandmother, Maymay, her
Aunt Bumblebee, her Uncle T-Red, her three illegitimate sisters, and her cousins.
Celeste learns how to fend for herself and her sisters at a young age while
also fighting rumors about her mother, Tut, the whore of Belle Place, a sleepy one
traffic- light Southwestern Louisiana town. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her mother Tut wants to leave all of them and
live with a man she finds working in the sugarcane fields. Maymay fears that
Celeste will end up like her mother. Will Celeste end up like her mother, or
will she redeem her family from hoodoo and the Curse of the Mulatto? Will she
find love herself with someone with a culture just as exotic as hers?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was born and raised under the clear
blue skies of Loreauville, Louisiana. I majored in English at the University of
Louisiana and later earned a Master’s degree from the University of New Orleans
where I earned the title Educational Diagnostician. I am married with two young
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">An
excerpt of my novel was published in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Louisiana
Cultural Vistas</i>. Celestial Blue Skies which was once titled The Curse of
the Mulatto was a 2009 finalist finalist for the worldwide William Faulkner
William Wisdom writing contest. It also placed as a finalist in the same 2011
competition as Celestial Blue Skies. I am a Center for Black Literature fellow.</span></div>
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Contact<br />
maggieperrodin@yahoo.com<br />
http://celestialblueskies.blogspot.com<br />
Maggie Whodat Collins on Facebook<br />
@maggie28 on twitter<br />
Celestial blue skies on facebook <br />
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BLACK BOYS DON’T SHOOT is an intense, experimental theater production aiming to cease gun fire on black youth across the globe. BBDS tackles the history-long obstacles and violence-dense ideology faced by and taught to black boys (particularly in America) from the 1700’s until now. The objective of Black Boys Don’t Shoot is to help members of the community re-establish the village mentality. We aim, with this production, to bring responsibility back to self while bringing accountability back to the entire community (the village). The production follows ten scripted monologue passages that discuss the effects of abandonment during slavery, the judicial system, poverty and
fatherhood. Black Boys Don’t Shoot discusses solutions for becoming better men by seeking the divine within ourselves and mentoring young men.
Writer/Director Charles Foster Jolivette is a 31 year old entertainer and entrepreneur from San Francisco California now living in New Orleans Louisiana. Charles began his career in writing shortly after he learned to walk, penning letters to Maya Angelou at 8 and rubbing elbows as an adolescent his Bay Area hometown with 2Pac Shakur. As a recording artist and talent manager, he has had the honor of working with Dick Gregory, Michael Franti and Paul Mooney among a slew of creative talents. His books include Etouffee, Le Midnight Roux and Bayou Babies. Foster Jolivette's upcoming release is an intense, experimental theater production aiming to cease gun fire on black youth. He calls the production, Black Boys Don't Shoot, "God's work!"
Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tony Wilson is a multi-talented stage performer and recording artist now residing in New Orleans, Louisiana. An electric performer, Tony Wilson presents captivating, uplifting entertainment and is often referred to as "the most sought after Spoken Word artist in the Gulf Coast Region."
Born in Jackson, Tennessee and raised in Henderson SIMPLE CITY Tennessee, Robert Deon is a 39-year-old United States ARMY SENIOR LEADER currently serving in Gulfport, Mississippi. Robert is an Iraqi War Veteran, a film and television actor and business owner. Deon also boasts that, "I'm the proud son of a preacher dedicated to pushing the positive word to the world.''<br />
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A Scribe Called Quess? (aka Michael Moore) is a poet, educator, and an actor. Quess has spent four years as an English teacher and is is a founding member of Team SNO (Slam New Orleans), New Orleans’ first slam poetry team since Hurricane Katrina, and the only national championship team the city has ever produced having won competitions in 2010, 2012 and 2013. His accomplishments with Team SNO have earned him honors from the Mayor of New Orleans as well as from City Council.
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32 year old Larry D.E. McGhee II, originally of Atlanta Georgia is a graduate of Morris Brown College and the North Atlanta School for performing arts. As an active duty U.S. Coast Guard for 8 years Larry was worked in counter narcotics and search and rescue. His daughter is the center of his world and music and acting are his passion. Of Black Boys Don't Shoot, Larry says, " I hope it will light a fire in the hearts and minds of MEN both young and old to take a stand against what's happening to our FUTURE." Zelvin Collins Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06992019065979873858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230061347041874927.post-10016936867853459392014-02-28T16:25:00.000-08:002014-02-28T16:25:03.325-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Zelvin Collins Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06992019065979873858noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230061347041874927.post-81639829969827468292014-02-26T18:53:00.001-08:002014-02-26T18:53:32.799-08:00Celestial Blue Skies: Celestial’s Blue Skies –Maggie Collins This is...<a href="http://celestialblueskies.blogspot.com/2014/02/celestials-blue-skies-maggie.html?spref=bl">Celestial Blue Skies: Celestial’s Blue Skies –<br />
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This is...</a>: Celestial’s Blue Skies – Maggie Collins This is a fictional story set in the Bayou of Louisiana in 1989. Picture, country gravel, un...Zelvin Collins Authorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06992019065979873858noreply@blogger.com2