flag of mercy
About the author:
Phillip Carroll Morgan is a Choctaw/Chickasaw poet, a painter, a songwriter, a biographer and historian, a literary critic and novelist. Four of the six books he has authored or co-authored since 2006 have won regional, national or international awards. White Dog Press published in 2014 his novel titled Anompolichi the Wordmaster, a story set in 1399 in the pre-American Southeast. White Dog plans to publish in 2020 the sequel novel, Anompolichi the Riverines. The University of Nebraska Press published in 2016 his essay critiquing Choctaw intellectual James L. McDonald’s 1831 manuscripts in A Listening Wind: Native Literature from the Southeast. Morgan lives with his family in the Chickasaw Nation near Blanchard, Oklahoma, and pursues the business of agroforestry on Morgan’s Mulberry Grove Farm, his father’s Indian allotment farm, under deed to the Morgan family for 114 years, since 1906, the year before Oklahoma statehood.
Art: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel by Kate Arnott Morgan
In the artist's words:
Kate Arnott Morgan grew up with artist’s colors and tools in her hands. In high school, she was privileged to bloom within the instruction of Harold Peterson in Salt Lake City (who is still teaching at Peterson Art Academy at age 86). During her college art school years at the University of Utah she accepted the invitation from Italian sculptor Bruno Lucchesi to study in his studio in New York City. Her work sold in the mid-1960s via Vincent Price and the Sears Collection. Fifty years later she is still producing fine art paintings and sculpture. Her work Is collected across the United States. She has partnered with her husband of 40 years, Phillip Carroll Morgan, in Morgan’s Mulberry Grove Farm in central Oklahoma near the northwestern corner of the Chickasaw Nation. Her Blue Heron studio is located on the edge of the farm’s black jack oak forest. It Is a fully equipped pottery studio, sculptor’s shop, and painting lab.