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Delving into "He Art: Pieces of A Whole"
New York-based poet Judith D. Angeles’ first chapbook of poems, He Art: Pieces of a Whole is an intensely personal walk through heart break and the agony of healing. Gathered together by several motifs (food, sheets, tears, screams, smoke) that bind the 13 pieces to each other, He Art opens with the eponymous poem, wasting [...]
Read moreRecalling Jayne
I have been chatting quite a bit with a new friend recently, who has been listening to Camille Yarbrough–one of the greatest civil rights/afrocentric wordsmiths out there. There is, in this breed of startlingly stark and touching poet/writers, the truthful June Jordan, the beloved Nikki Giovanni, the sublime Rita Dove, and perhaps the most famous [...]
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