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Reading Generously: Black Stories

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For February’s Reading Generously column, we share stories by Black authors. Fiction, poetry, and plays, oh my!

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Adjustments: A Belated Bicentenary Party for John Keats

March 4, 2021 By Will Willingham 3 Comments

The characters from Adjustments: a novel return for a sort of celebration in belated honor of the bicentenary of the death of John Keats.

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Poet Laura: Chocolate Saves Mardi Gras

March 3, 2021 By Laura Boggess 9 Comments

Tweetspeak’s Poet Laura, Laura Boggess, spends Mardi Gras without power but offers up a chocolate sonnet after a gift from her chocolate patron.

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March 2, 2021 By Glynn Young 1 Comment

The poetry of “The Evening Sky” by Charles Hughes speaks to the mortality of life and focusing on what truly matters.

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Top 10 Best Lord of the Flies Quotes

March 1, 2021 By L.L. Barkat 4 Comments

Catch these top 10 best quotes from Lord of the Flies, chosen by poet Tania Runyan. You’ll be surprised by how they capture the whole book perfectly!

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By Heart: ‘Blessing the Boats’ + New Elizabeth Bishop Challenge

February 26, 2021 By Megan Willome 7 Comments

For Black History Month, we learn Lucille Clifton’s “blessing the boats” By Heart and consider the memory of a Chilean sea.

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Lord of the Flies: Poem to a Conch

February 25, 2021 By Tania Runyan Leave a Comment

Buried in the rich symbolism of Lord of the Flies, Tania Runyan finds a poem for the conch.

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