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The following is the speech given by the Polish poet Wislawa
The following is the speech given by the Polish poet Wislawa Syzmborska (1923- 2012) when she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Its really wonderful....

Here is a most beautiful, lush poem by the great Jibanananda Das
Here is a most beautiful, lush poem by the great Jibanananda Das (1899-1954). Like Rabindranath Tagore who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 (...

SUN RA: you think Im from here? you ask who you with?, where
SUN RA: you think Im from here? you ask who you with?, where you from?, they been trying to eradicate my line for a long time. still doing it: gen...

I had a neighbor in Queens who considered himself quite a hip cat.
I had a neighbor in Queens who considered himself quite a hip cat. He was Guyanese and an adherent of really commercialized hip hop music. If you aske...

Ornette Coleman is considered one of the great innovators of jazz.
Ornette Coleman is considered one of the great innovators of jazz. He was married to the poet Jayne Cortez. As I settle in as a resident of New Orlean...

“To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not
“To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps, to God; or to Go...