Category: in the news
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Patrick Modiano Edges out Thiong’o and Murakami to Win 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
(photograph of Patrick Modiano by Reuters and El Pais) Though presented by the UK-bookmaker Ladbrokes with an odds of only 10 to 1 to win the 2014 Nobel Prize in…
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Text and Meaning in Elemental The Power of Illuminated Love (part 1 of 3)
Angles of Ascents Anthology featuring the works of contemporary poets. (Cover image features poets Nikki Giovanni and the late Amiri Baraka) Success for the creatively-inclined individual can be defined in many ways. Certainly there are those who necessarily measure their triumphs in terms of monetary gains. There are others for…
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Creative Flexibility and Annihilated Lives (essay with poem)
“The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation. Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence…”~Toni Morrison, 1993 Nobel Lecture in Literature (This segment of Creative Flexibility and Annihilated Lives is…
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Notebook on Michael Brown, Kajieme Powell, and W.E.B. Du Bois (part 1 of 2)
“No one seems to think it significant that upon the policemen’s arrival Kajieme Powell possibly had reason to fear for his life and reacted in a manner consistent with his disability.” ––Article excerpt (Aberjhani) “Democracy is not a gift of power, but a reservoir of knowledge.” –– from The Wisdom…
Bridge of Silver Wings 2025 