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Claudia Rankine shares discovery that gave her compassion for her mother
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoClaudia Rankine has opened up about learning that she was conceived as a “product of rape” and how...
20 Black poets to know this National Black Poetry Day
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEvery year, the mainstream literary gates seem to open just that much wider to allow for more...
Louise Glück, former Vermont state poet of terse and candid lyricism, dies at 80
The Burlington Free Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNobel laureate Louise Glück, the former Vermont state poet of unblinking candor and perception who...
The best poetry books of 2023
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 months agoTroublant, phasmid, gadje, plumbous, filsket, caravel, birl… Fran Lock must swallow dictionaries the way her alter ego does meat in Hyena! (Poetry Bus,...
Freedom Papers: 6 books to inspire on this Independence Day
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years ago“What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?” Frederick Douglass famously asked during an...
Shirley Jo Finney, trailblazing Black director, dies after cancer battle
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 7 months agoFinney spent decades directing drama plays, including Ifa Bayeza’s “The Ballad of Emmett Till,”...
Family-owned Tacoma bookstore marks Black History Month with readings, community events
Tacoma News Tribune via AOL· 1 year agoFebruary is Black History Month, and some Washingtonians may be looking for books about Black...
Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah receives $100,000 prize
Associated Press via AOL· 2 months agoFady Joudah, a Palestinian American poet who has said he writes for the future because “the present is demolished,” has received a $100,000 award from Poets & Writers. Joudah's books include ...
Books for fall 2023: Our 75 top picks for serious reading season — and there’s plenty of light stuff...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAm I the only one who thinks it’s weird that we keep treating the seasons as clearly delineated...
