Over the years I’ve developed a tough-enough way to be cheerful and productive, my own “grant...
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Over the years I’ve developed a tough-enough way to be cheerful and productive, my own “grant...
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I’m continually a few days behind in the past month or so, what with Winter holidays and other...
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Here’s a second poem by Afro-American Modernist poet Fenton Johnson. Like the first piece of...
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“So, what are you going to do today?” my teenaged son asked me. “Go and be of some use to the...
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Today’s piece uses words by Robert Hayden, who was a 20th Century American poet who often wrote...
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Our last episode featured words by Phillis Wheatley, whose story I first heard about in a...
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Sometime around the end of the 19th Century, a century that had seen accelerating change in...
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Here’s a piece with words by a poet I knew nothing about until this year, and still now know next...
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A couple of episodes back we had a piece with words by Roy G. Dandridge who got called the “Paul...
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Today’s piece uses my own words to present some images regarding American musician and songwriter...
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I’m going to close out our investigation into the little-known early 20th Century Chicago...
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Here’s a piece using an outwardly modest poem by a modest poet, Anne Spencer. It spoke so quietly...
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I’ve all but promised, here’s a piece using another poem by the lesser-known early 20th Century...
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Choosing to make even one arbitrary choice can be a great aid to creativity. After all, though...
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Anne Spencer's Dunbar for National Poetry Month
When John Keats died a yet unheralded, English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley linked him with...
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#003- Relationship between Africans & African Americans, Success and Language Learning
Ibra is originally from Senegal. In this episode we talk about life growing up in Africa and life...
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