Kamille D. WhittakerJan 261 minDerek Walcott: Love After Love and Poetry as PrayerLove After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other'...
Kamille D. WhittakerNov 24, 20191 minOf Rivers and VolcanoesThere’s little to nothing on the drive from Liberia to Costa Rica’s Papagayo peninsula to which the Pacific lays claim. Nothing, as in no busy town squares, ...
Kamille D. WhittakerNov 21, 20191 minLucille Clifton Reads: "Won't You Celebrate With Me?"[Lucille begins at the :26 mark] won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman w...
Kamille D. WhittakerAug 7, 20195 minToni Morrison's Eulogy for James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; Life in His Language Jimmy, there is too much to think about you, and too much to feel. The difficulty is your life refuses summation - it always did - and invites contemplation ...
Kamille D. WhittakerJun 23, 20190 minSummer Reading: "The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution"
Kamille D. WhittakerJun 6, 20193 minReading Toni Morrison’s 1973 Summer Essay “Cooking Out”Forty-six years ago, Toni Morrison wrote an essay about cooking out for the 1973 Summer Reading issue. By TONI MORRISON Uncle Green was late so that meant al...
Kamille D. WhittakerDec 31, 20182 min[Excerpt] Pole:"It took me 10 years to learn how to write about my father, about his life and death"My thoughts: I was once on the receiving end of this term when my Grandmother passed. After being taught its meaning, it created a space for tenderness withi...