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Age: 30
Hometown:
LaGrange, Georgia
Occupation:
(With Margaret Wilson)
running Combinations
Unique, a catering service
Goal:
To be a full-time writer
Upcoming Production:
"Shadows of Womanstance,"
a choreopoem, to be
presented at Rhythm Fest
Book Currently Reading:
The Unknown Woman,
by Alice Roller
Sheila Braughton
CAROL TUCKER:
Sharing Her Voice
Carol Tucker lives in Decatur near
Agnes Scott College. The front door of
her house leads onto a small porch with
wicker: furniture; a copy of "Food and
Wine" magazine lies on the cushions. In
the living room, an impressive East
African ebony head of a woman stands
on a pedestal.
Carol is slim, quiet, precise in speech.
Hair in small dreads; a striped T-shirt and
shorts, set off with a stylish red belt. She
has a warm smile and a quick laugh, and
her sly wit lurks always ready to break
out under the seriousness.
Carol has been writing poetry and
short fiction for eleven years. Her plans
include graduate school in creative writ
ing at Georgia State or Emory. She would
like eventually to write and to teach.
Carol speaks seriously and with ani
mation about her writing and about the
issues that inspire it. Her subjects are
issues of the Black community, especial
ly the concerns of black women.
She is currently looking forward to a
production of her choreopoem, "Shadows
of Womanstance," at Rhythm Fest. "It's
about the shadows that Black women
have stood in. Women dealing with
physical and mental health issues, strug
gling to move away from where society
has placed them."
The choreopoem, Carol's first work
for the stage, was inspired by For
Colored Girls Who Have Considere d
Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by
Ntozake Shange. Four women will be
reciting poetry with movement, song and
music. Some of the music will be the
new age jazz instrumentals of Ray
Lynch. One number is to a Tina Turner
song; "It's about a woman who wants to
be like Tina, not only because of her per
forming self, but because of all the things
she's had to overcome in her private life."
One poem honors Winnie Mandela.
"Robbery of Oneself is about a prosti
tute. A poem about a woman in a mental
institution points up the similarities
between women who have been institu
tionalized and those who are on the out
side, but who are still trapped. "There are
this summer about what to keep about
myself and what not to keep. How to dis
card things about myself that I don't like.
And how to keep things that I don't like
but still need."
She enjoys travel. "I'd like to teach irt
other countries. I went to Nairobi, Kenya,
and that was the best experience in my
life. It was a dream come true. I would
like to see other cultures and to share my
culture."
She's not much of a joiner-'Tm a shy
person." But she considers herself politi
cal: "I see my writing as a vehicle for my
politics." She has joined the African-
American Lesbian/Gay Alliance, howev
er; "and I have learned a great deal."
Carol and her lover Margaret Wilson,
who have been together for three years,
run a catering service. They started out
preparing parties and dinners for friends,
and now have opened up the operation to
die general public. _
Margaret does most of the cooking,
while Carol makes the arrangements. "We
prefer intimate parties. We like to do
breakfast in bed, or dinner for two or for
an individual; sometimes someone will
like to send a dinner to somebody. We
enjoy doing that."
Margaret is studying to be an
Executive Chef with the American
Culinary Federation. She has just com
pleted the first year of a three-year pro
gram and is now in her apprenticeship at
the Raddison Hotel downtown. She
hopes someday to open her own restau
rant.
Laughs Carol ruefully: "We're both
students now, and going in two separate
directions."
But Carol's direction is clear. She plans
to write more pieces for the stage, and to
continue writing poetry and fiction. More
poetry perfolmancc is in the works this
fall—at Project Poetry with Poetry
Atlanta. "We will be going to housing
projects in the city and performing our
poems."
Such sharing is crucial: "When I began
to share my work with others, I found my
voice." And Carol's voice, like the voices
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Carol muses about her life as a Black
woman and a writer: "I've been thinking — Charlene Ball
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Southern Voice/ August 16,1990