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Spirits of the Dead By Edgar Allan Poe I Thy soul shall
Spirits of the Dead By Edgar Allan Poe I Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, t...

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist Who Took On Apartheid, Is Dead at
Nadine Gordimer, Novelist Who Took On Apartheid, Is Dead at 90 By HELEN T. VERONGOS Nadine Gordimer, the South African writer whose literary ambitio...

The Talk By Gayle Danley Pretty soon we’ll have the
The Talk By Gayle Danley Pretty soon we’ll have the talk. She’ll ask me where babies come from And I will lie to her: “Babies come from the cha...

Lullaby [For Charles Baudelaire] BY LYNN XU Lie me down to
Lullaby [For Charles Baudelaire] BY LYNN XU Lie me down to heal in sleep, do not let me wake In sin, the tongue Cancels another year, another painted...

Late one afternoon some 20 years ago, a close family friend called
Late one afternoon some 20 years ago, a close family friend called to tell me of a sudden domestic crisis. My wife and I went straight round to take h...

With “Stokely: A Life,” the historian Peniel E. Joseph says he
With “Stokely: A Life,” the historian Peniel E. Joseph says he set out to “recover” Stokely Carmichael, the man who popularized the phrase “...

The African Poetry Book Fund is set to publish Awoonor’s latest
The African Poetry Book Fund is set to publish Awoonor’s latest collection, “Promises of Hope: New and Selected Poems” in 2014. Here, by permiss...