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    Excerpt: "A Little Patch of Something"
    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 an...
    Spring Reading: "The Yellow House" by Sarah M. Broom
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • May 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Spring Reading: "The Yellow House" by Sarah M. Broom

    #JumpAtTheSuns #Memoir #NarrativeNonfiction #NewOrleans
    Spring Reading: "The Light of the World: A Memoir"
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Apr 15, 2020
    • 1 min

    Spring Reading: "The Light of the World: A Memoir"

    #NonFiction #Memoir #LoveAndLoss
    Derek Walcott: Love After Love and Poetry as Prayer
    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...
    Of Rivers and Volcanoes
    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...
    Lucille Clifton Reads: "Won't You Celebrate With Me?"
    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...
    Toni Morrison's Eulogy for James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; Life in His Language
    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 in...
    Summer Reading: "The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution"
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jun 23, 2019
    • 0 min

    Summer Reading: "The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution"

    Reading Toni Morrison’s 1973 Summer Essay “Cooking Out”
    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 l...
    [Excerpt] Pole:"It took me 10 years to learn how to write about my father, about his life and death"
    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 ...
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