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06/21/2025

Artistic flourish.?

“Dear Diary,

“I did NOT have the birthday of my dreams last weekend! Everyone knows that 79 is the tank birthday. One is paper, 77 is emoluments, 78 you get to destroy one constitutional amendment of your choosing, 80 you get to become the state, but 79 is tanks, and I was so looking forward to my tank birthday. https://theatln.tc/tXjVtWcf

“I thought it was pretty clear what I wanted. But obviously, it wasn’t!!! This was like the kind of tank parade your mom makes you lovingly from scratch, and I wanted the kind of tank parade that is made in China or North Korea. I don’t want a special American tank parade where our soldiers are waving and smiling out of the tanks. I want one like my friends have.”

Read Alexandra Petri’s full interpretation at the link.

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05/26/2025

I can feel whoever that is pinning my ear

🧾 Today's word of the day

Example Sentence: The cacophony of car horns and chatter made it impossible to concentrate.

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05/21/2025

The African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) is pleased to announce that it is now housed at Brown University! Over the past seven months, our small but mighty organization has made this institutional transition from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln to Brown as Kwame Dawes (Founding Director) took on a position as Professor in Literary Arts and Lorna Dawes (Co-Primary Investigator of the African Poetry Digital Portal) took on a position as Research and Exploration Librarian at the Libraries.
Our operations have also moved to Brown University: we now have a beautiful office space in the Rock Library dedicated to the APBF’s projects, where Siwar Masannat (Assistant Director) and our new team member Jae Geralde (Office Coordinator) work in support of APBF’s many (and ever expanding!) projects. Paul Hanson Clark (Web Editor) also continues promoting the APBF, our stellar authors, and African poetry and poetics at Brown University from his home in Lincoln, Nebraska.

The APBF and our team have been welcomed so warmly by Brown University, and we are thrilled to create new connections at Brown and in Providence, and to keep collaborating with those dedicated to African poetry and poetics in Africa, Nebraska, and across the US and the globe.

Of course, we also look forward to continuing the APBF’s enduring and productive collaborations with the University of Nebraska Press and Akashic Books on publishing brilliant African poets at all stages of their writing journeys.

The APBF’s prizes and submission periods remain the same as before. If you have a question or would like to be in touch, we can now be reached at [email protected].

https://abpf-wp.us.reclaim.cloud/the-african-poetry-book-funds-new-institutional-home/

05/05/2025

An artist aims to dispel moments of ennui, in hopes of a characteristically new type of emergence.

05/05/2025

Celebrating my 2nd year on Facebook. Thank you for your continuing support. I could never have made it without you. 🙏🤗🎉