On the Waves of Lost Memories Selected Poems

About the Book

Okot P’Bitek, writing in Africa’s Cultural Revolution, Macmillian Books for Africa, Nairobi, 1973, reminds us that “writing, like painting and sculpting, is a mere tool for expressing ideas. As the painter uses brush, color, and a surface (. . . canvas, the walls of St. Peter’s Basilica . . . the walls of a cave), and the sculptor uses a chisel and a piece of wood or stone to produce shapes and figures, the poet uses words for expressing his feelings. The voice of the [writer] and the pen and paper are mere midwives of a pregnant mind.”

About the Author

Millard Lowe, a native of Freeport, Texas, is a retired teacher/educator. He is a graduate of Texas Southern University and the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He lived and worked in Jamaica for 13 years where he was employed by the Ministry of Education, teaching at the Maldon Secondary School and at the Sam Sharpe Teachers College, both near Montego Bay, St. James, Jamaica. He has also taught at St. Michael's Catholic Girls School, LA. CA, the Bel Air Prep/Pacific Hills School in West Hollywood, CA., New Designs Charter School, Watts, CA. For over 16 years, he served as a Volunteer Teacher, Tutor and Curricula Developer for the Greater Los Angeles College Bound Program. During the 1960's Civil Rights Movement, he ("Tex" Lowe) was a Field Secretary for SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee). Very active in the SNCC-Arkansas Project, he is featured in the book, ARSNICK, The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas. His poems have been published in several American anthologies as well as in Dawn Magazine, Heritage Magazine, Los Angeles Sentinel, The Jamaica Literary Festival Anthology, and the Jamaica Gleaner Poetry Page. A founding member of The Montego Bay Writers’ Guild, he co-authored the Guild’s poetry book, 360 Degrees West. His first individual book of poetry, Like A Tree Planted By The Waters, was self published in 2006. Millard Lowe and his wife, Barbara, now reside in the state of Virginia, where he continues to write and teach part-time as a long term sub, as well as engages in numerous volunteer projects of several fraternal groups of which he is a member.