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Gwendolyn Brooks’ Archives Find Home in Illinois [by Tara Betts]
Gwendolyn Brooks was celebrated with her own stamp alongside Elizabeth Bishop, Joseph Brodsky, Gwendolyn Brooks, E.E. Cummings, Robert Hayden, Denise Levertov, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams in 2012. One of…
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Hurston, Humor, and Shasheer Zamata on Saturday Night Live [by Tara Betts]
Michael Ealy and Halle Berry as Tea Cake and Janie Crawford in the film version of Their Eyes Were Watching God. It’s a day of literary birthdays: Zora Neale Hurston, Cornelius Eady, Michael Medrano…
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Poetry in the Polar Vortex [by Tara Betts]
The first blast of the polar vortex is closing schools again and is predicted to drop into double-digit below zero temperatures. When the vortex made its first visit last weekend, it made me nostalgic…
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Tara Betts, Guest Author January 6-10
This week we welcome Tara Betts as our guest author. Tara is the author of Arc & Hue and the libretto THE GREATEST!: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali. Tara is a Ph.D. candidate in English/Creative Writing at SUNY Binghamton…
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Meet the Press: Nin Andrews in Conversation with Shanna Compton, Editor of Bloof Books
Shanna Compton NA: How did Bloof Books begin, and how long has it been in existence? SC: We published our first books in 2007. I had been working as the Poetry Editor & Associate…
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“Mistakes” [by Thomas Fucaloro]
If I say no will he say yes?If she says yes how will I know it doesn’t mean no?If my body wants to but my soul doesn’t, whom do I listen to?The evening is…
