Arthur Flowers

Arthur Flowers is a novelist, essayist, and performance poet. A native of Memphis Tennessee, he attended the University of Memphis and the CUNY BA Program, NYC. He is the author of novels, Another Good Loving Blues and De Mojo Blues; a children's book, Cleveland Lee's Beale Street Band, and a memoir/manifesto, Mojo Rising: Confessions of a 21st Century Conjureman. He has published shorts and articles and is a bluesbased performance poet. He is a founding member/director of New Renaissance Writers Guild and Pan African Literary Forum, and has been Executive Director of the Harlem Writers Guild. His literary interests encompass the use of the oral tradition in African American literature, the mythological role of the Delta in African American culture, and the more challenging dynamics of love. His forms courses are Literary Hoodoo, studying works of magic, mythwork, fable and magical realism; Literary Blues, an exploration of the blues and the oral tradition in African American literature; and Global Storytelling, engaging unorthodox narrative styles and strategies from a variety of global literary cultures. He is particularly interested in facilitating the production of novels in workshop/MFA formats. His novel in progress, Rest for the Weary, is a meditation on prophecy, destiny and the human condition. He is also working on a nonfiction work, The Hoodoo Book of Flowers. He considers having an online literary presence part of being a 21st Century literary man. His blog, Rootsblog: a cyberhoodoo webspace: http://rootsblog.typepad.com/rootsblog/ is up to date but his webpage Rootwork.com is so in need of repair he has refused to provide a link. Facebook: Arthur Rickydoc Flowers. Twitter: rickydocflowers.