Kamille D. Whittaker
Full Bloom: On the kinship and legacy of a literary union
Alice Walker and the late Valerie Boyd illustrated by Hsiao-Ron Cheng for Atlanta Magazine; words by Anjali Enjeti
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Kamille D. Whittaker
- Jun 13, 2020
- 1 min
Excerpt: "A Little Patch of Something"
By Imani Perry Excerpted from The Paris Review I’m growing microgreens. Every couple of weeks they are sufficiently lush to be snipped...
Kamille D. Whittaker
- May 13, 2020
- 1 min
Spring Reading: "The Yellow House" by Sarah M. Broom
#JumpAtTheSuns #Memoir #NarrativeNonfiction #NewOrleans
Kamille D. Whittaker
- Apr 15, 2020
- 1 min
Spring Reading: "The Light of the World: A Memoir"
#NonFiction #Memoir #LoveAndLoss
Kamille D. Whittaker
- Jan 26, 2020
- 1 min
Derek Walcott: Love After Love and Poetry as Prayer
Love 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...
Kamille D. Whittaker
- Nov 24, 2019
- 1 min
Of Rivers and Volcanoes
There’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...
Kamille D. Whittaker
- Nov 21, 2019
- 1 min
Lucille 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...
Kamille D. Whittaker
- Aug 7, 2019
- 5 min
Toni 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...
Kamille D. Whittaker
- Jun 23, 2019
- 0 min
Kamille D. Whittaker
- Jun 6, 2019
- 3 min
Reading 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...
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Kamille D. Whittaker
- Dec 31, 2018
- 2 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...