This Vermont poet is a Seattle institution… Courtesy Rajnii Eddins
When Rajnii Eddins moved from Seattle to Vermont 12 years ago, I felt that this city had lost a big part of its culture. His mother, Randee Eddins, founded the African American Writers Alliance, an organization I became involved with during the first half of the 1990s. When I taught literature to high school students at Seattle Central College in the second half of the 1990s, the best mind in the class was undoubtedly Eddins’. Indeed, he read to the class the whole of Zora Neale Hurston’s ebonics-rich Their Eyes Were Watching God flawlessly. They