publications

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Plantables Book Cover“The truth of all life is not only the beauty of form . . . but the fact that it exists at all.”

–Deborah Plant

Purchase Plant’a’bles, a collection of quotes by Deborah G. Plant, compiled by Kendra N. Bryant, Dr. Plant’s former student. Each quote is accompanied by a blank page  inviting readers to contemplatively write reflections on Dr. Plant’s offerings. To make a purchase, click here. 

a book review
“A Charge to Keep: Alice Walker Writing Herself into a Color Purple Existence”
“Coming into Being: Metta to (Womanist) Teachers”
“Dear Zora: Letters from the New Literati.”
“‘Me/We’: Building an ‘Embodied’ Writing Classroom for Socially Networked, Socially Distracted Basic Writers.”
“The Making of a Western-Negro-Superhero-Savior: Django’s Blue Velvet Fauntleroy Suit.”
“But Can We Muster Compassion for George Zimmerman?”
“‘Heaven last all ways’: Examining Celie’s ‘Suchness’ in Walker’s The Color Purple.”
The Writing’s on the Wall: Making the Case for Hieroglyphs in the 21st Century Composition Classroom
“The Heart of a Woman: Re-Envisioning Maya Angelou’s ‘On the Pulse of Morning’ in Light of Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream.’”
“‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus’ (& Nikki): A Musing Response to Nikki Giovanni’s ‘A Good Cry.’”
Engaging 21st Century Writers with Social Media: The Preface.