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  The Compassionate Poetic Genius of Gwendolyn Brooks

  Welcome to the revised Part 3 of Poetic Traditions of Compassion and Creative Maladjustment. This revision is presented to correct technological difficulties encountered with the previous upload. Thank you for your patience and please enjoy the episode: June 7, 2017, marked the centennial of the birth of Gwendolyn Brooks, (she…

  October 10, 2021
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  Poetic Traditions of Compassion and Creative Maladjustment (Part 3): Gwendolyn Brooks

  Welcome to the third segment of Poetic Traditions of Compassion and Creative Maladjustment: June 7, 2017, marked the centennial of the birth of Gwendolyn Brooks, (she died December 2000), who in 1950 became the first African American–and at the time the youngest American–to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Her…

  October 9, 2021
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  Election Day 2020: Democracy, Personal Whims, and Accountability – Conversations with the World 101

  Welcome to Conversations with the World 101. Originally part of the virtual launch party for the book Greeting Flannery O’Connor at the Back Door of My Mind, this edited version is being presented as Americans head to the polls for Election Day 2020. This is what it’s all about: Quotations…

  November 3, 2020
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  The 2015 Bid for Power and History in Savannah (Georgia, USA) – Bright Skylark Literary Productions

  There’s a lot at stake when it comes to casting a vote for the mayor of Georgia’s first city. Candidates not only stand to make history but to shape it some very powerful ways. (photo of Edna B. Jackson courtesy of Diva Magazine) Journalist Patricia C. Stumb, in a 1999…

  November 17, 2015