“Jaki Shelton Green brings a deep appreciation of our state’s diverse communities to her role as an ambassador of North Carolina literature. Jaki’s appointment is a wonderful new chapter in North Carolina’s rich literary history.”
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Poet And Activist Keorapetse Kgositsile, Who Celebrated Black Arts, Dead At 79 | Huffington Post
The acclaimed academic was also the father of rapper Earl Sweatshirt.
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Yrsa Daley-Ward’s Powerful, Poetic Distillations | The Atlantic
Revisiting bone, a 2017 collection that showed the possibilities of poetry on the internet
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Sitting down with poet Nikki Giovanni for a ‘A Good Cry’ | Chicago Tribune
When she writes about her godmother and grandparents, she recalls the overlooked sacrifices the elders made to smooth the path for her.
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