Author: Linda Joy Burke

Performance Poet and writer Linda Joy Burke’s poetry, fiction, op-ed columns, reviews, profiles and feature stories have appeared in numerous publications including: The Little Patuxent Review, Obsidian II Black Literature in Review, Black Issues Book Review, The Columbia Flier, Beltway: An On-Line Quarterly, Healing Design; Practical Feng Shui For Gracious Living, Gargoyle 54, When Divas Laugh, and Women-to-Women Magazine. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ljoyburke/

by Linda Joy Burke

My Two Heads

My first memory of a structured music environment comes from the fourth grade at Nativity, a Catholic school in Washington, D.C. The overexuberant nun insisted that we bend our thumbs at a ninety-degree angle, open our mouths, and stick the top of the crook between our lips so that they would form an oval. That […]

Thoughts on Social Justice

On January 28, Little Patuxent Review will launch the Social Justice issue, guest-edited by poet Truth Thomas, at Oliver’s Carriage House in Columbia, MD. In celebration of the release, I was invited to share my thoughts on the upcoming issue and social justice. I wrote this on January 16, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. King would have […]

Exploring the Language of Love

When I met acupuncturist Dianne M. Connelly, I was a highly impressionable young woman dealing with tremendous spiritual dilemmas and an identity crisis brought on by years of being picked on for not being black enough and more than a decade of not being connected to a nuclear family. I was introduced to her by […]