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January 11, 2021

Hafizah Geter’s Poems in Un-American Explore What It Means to Belong

She “charts the history of a black family of mixed citizenships through poems imbued by migration, racism, queerness, loss, and heartbreak.”
Paula Willie-Okafor
Hafizah Geter's Un-American. From @kellyforsythe_.

January 9, 2021

Chigozie Obioma, Twice Booker Prize Finalist, on Judging the 2021 Prize

Shortlisted for his first two novels, The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities, the Nigerian writer tells us what the prize means to him and what he will look out for on the panel.
Otosirieze
Chigozie Obioma. From Sidewalk Citizen.

January 7, 2021

Leila Chatti Joins Poetry Faculty at UW-Madison

From Spring 2021, the Tunisian American will resume as the Mendota Lecturer in Poetry.
Uzoma Ihejirika
Leila Chatti. Credit: Copper Canyon Press.

January 6, 2021

Aminatta Forna’s Essays in The Window Seat Explore Movement, Trauma, & Memory

The Sierra Leonean British author examines race in America through the lens of an African and what it means to walk the world in a Black woman’s body.
Ernest Ogunyemi
The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion by Aminatta Forna.

December 30, 2020

Toni Morrison’s Personal Collection of 1,200+ Books

They include books by and about Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gayl Jones, Henry Dumas, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, the Obamas, and the Clintons.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Toni Morrison's personal library. Credit: Brown Harris Stevens.

January 11, 2021

Hafizah Geter's Un-American. From @kellyforsythe_.

Hafizah Geter’s Poems in Un-American Explore What It Means to Belong

She “charts the history of a black family of mixed citizenships through poems imbued by migration, racism, queerness, loss, and heartbreak.”
Paula Willie-Okafor

January 9, 2021

Chigozie Obioma. From Sidewalk Citizen.

Chigozie Obioma, Twice Booker Prize Finalist, on Judging the 2021 Prize

Shortlisted for his first two novels, The Fishermen and An Orchestra of Minorities, the Nigerian writer tells us what the prize means to him and what he will look out for on the panel.
Otosirieze

January 7, 2021

Leila Chatti. Credit: Copper Canyon Press.

Leila Chatti Joins Poetry Faculty at UW-Madison

From Spring 2021, the Tunisian American will resume as the Mendota Lecturer in Poetry.
Uzoma Ihejirika

January 6, 2021

The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion by Aminatta Forna.

Aminatta Forna’s Essays in The Window Seat Explore Movement, Trauma, & Memory

The Sierra Leonean British author examines race in America through the lens of an African and what it means to walk the world in a Black woman’s body.
Ernest Ogunyemi

December 30, 2020

Toni Morrison's personal library. Credit: Brown Harris Stevens.

Toni Morrison’s Personal Collection of 1,200+ Books

They include books by and about Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gayl Jones, Henry Dumas, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, the Obamas, and the Clintons.
Ernest Ogunyemi

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