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John Murillo: Interview
by Adisa Vera Beatty Afro-Chicano poet and playwright John Murillo has generated a great deal of excitement and praise from the likes of Junot Diaz and Yusef Komunyakaa for his premiere collection of poems, Up Jump The Boogie (Cypher Press, 2010). Currently he is the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin…
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Up Jump the Boogie: Review
Up Jump The Boogie John Murillo Cypher Books Review by Adisa Vera Beatty Poet John Murillo’s first collection, Up Jump the Boogie is bold and lyrical. The poems are elegies of liberation celebrating how we got by instead of lamenting death, hard times, or street life. With steady hands Murillo alternately testifies, pays homage, and…
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Roger Bonair-Agard
On Sunday, May 15, 2011, Roger Bonair Agard welcomed folks from many of his varied camps –students, friends, family, teachers, and poets to hear him read and celebrate the launch of his sophomore effort, “Gully.” The title has many connotation: low part of a channel, the toughest area of the ghetto
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PEN World Festival of International Literature
April 25, 2011 – Mosaic was on hand for opening night of the Seventh Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. Held at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers. Guests included Festival Chair Salman Rushdie, Malcolm Gladwell, Wallace Shawn, Deborah Eisenberg, Mircea Cartarescu, Andrea Levy, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Hanif Kureish, and others.
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Kevin Young
Friday, March 4; poet Kevin Young read from his new book “Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.”
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Something Like Beautiful… by asha bandele
Something Like Beautiful One Single Mother’s Story by asha bandele HarperCollins Reviewed by Danielle A. Jackson asha bandele’s latest work, the memoir Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story, reads as a dénouement or coda to her first work of prose published ten years earlier, The Prisoner’s Wife.
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The 5th Inning by E. Ethelbert Miller
The 5th Inning by E. Ethelbert Miller Busboys and Poets and PM Press Reviewed by Vincent F. A. Golphin Baseball games are usually nine innings, so the title of the poet E. Ethelbert Miller’s memoir intrigued me. The 163-page book is a second appraisal of his life, a sort of sequel.
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05/2009 The New Black Memoir: An Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates A New ‘Toon: Robert Truillo on graphic artist Dawud Anyabwile Every Woman: An Interview with Goretti Kyomuhendo The New Black Memoir: An Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates by Abdul Ali When Ta-Nehisi Coates sat down to write The Beautiful Struggle, he broke new ground for young memoirists whose work challenge…
