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Reading Generously: Black Stories

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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