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Meet Huntsville's own Marc Lacy, a graduate of Alabama A&M University. He is a nationally renown, award winning poet/author and spoken word artist.  He has performed all of over the country at many national literary events and spoken word venues.  Marc is a contributing writer to RADAR
and The Grove Magazines.  He is also a writer for Blogginginblack.com.

In The Summer of 2009, Marc met up with the co-founder of HBO's  Def Poetry Jam, Mr. Bruce George and Poet Rene Reyes in Los Angeles to serve on the panel at The Annual "So you Think you can  Spit?"poetic symposium for youth.  Lacy credits

 

MY WRITING GETS NO ATTENTION
by author/poet Marc Lacy

No attention?  I know this is not coming from you because your friends and family are ecstatic at the fact that you've written a book and are a published author.  Your former high school English instructor and her current writer's guild have been following you as you've become versed in article publishing and blogging. 

Meanwhile, your name has a certain "buzz" attached to it via the internet and your popularity has been increasing gradually.  You recently found out a New York Times Best-Selling author has acquired a copy of your monthly

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Today let us reason together. I propose that everything in this life can be approached from the perspective of being a game and your salvation is no exception.

Salvation is as a game because like any other game there is something to be gained from winning and a price to be paid for losing and I play the game.

Today and very briefly I want to reason with you as to why we all must play the game and why we have no choice but to play the game if we want true and everlasting salvation.

In our mortal existence we live until we die, but in the game of salvation you must first die before you live.

In

 

Black Pearls Magazine Interview Dr. Maxine E. Thompson  

Dr. Maxine E. Thompson   is a novelist, poet, columnist, short story writer, book reviewer, an editor, freelance writer, ghostwriter, Internet Radio Show Host, and a Literary Agent. She is the author of The Ebony Tree, No Pockets in a Shroud, A Place Called Home (A Short Story Collection), The Hush Hush Secrets of Writing Fiction That Sell, a contributor to bestselling anthologies Secret Lovers, All in The Family, and Never Knew Love Like This Before, (Also a Kindle Bestseller), Proverbs for the People. Hostage of Lies is her latest

As long as we have a black sitting president we have opportunity and breathing room. Black America we will not be given a second chance. It is time to represent our presence in the game with intelligent strategy. It is do or die for black America.. It is time to check out your mind.

The further we penetrate into the 21st century marketing equation the more pressure and resistance we will encounter. Use our intelligence and show the world race players how to really go green.

To prevent us from being rolled up like sleeping bags we need to acquire real-time, cutting edge and current intelligence

In my opinion, the Monday night training session moderated by Jim Allen was a good focused session and typifies what can happen when the audience gets involved in the session via their comments and questions. The bottom-line is, learning takes place and people feel they have had a worthy experience. I further believe this is one of the reasons why the number of people coming to the 12SC sessions has remained constant with increasing numbers since we started. Of course if you have not been there yet, it is probably difficult for you to fully relate to the excitement I am describing.