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2 months ago | 
bookriot.com | Amber McBride |Erica Martin |Taylor Byas |Kelly Jensen
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Somehow, some way, we’ve reached the final week of January. It’s been a long month in these parts, and I know for folks in many areas of the country, it’s been an especially challenging month. In the midst of whatever January has thrown your way, I hope you’ve been able to enjoy a good book or two.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
slj.com | Taylor Byas |Kathy Ishizuka |Kara Yorio
The world lost poet, author, and civil rights activist Nikki Giovanni on Monday. The death of the 81-year-old literary legend and one of the leaders of the Black literary world was announced in a statement by her friend and fellow writer Renée Watson.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
thejournalmag.org | Taylor Byas
!100! !50! after African Night Market by Walter Battiss (1965) As the sky’s colors separate like oil in water,black men turn blue in the sunset. Flies hover over the tables,circle like buzzards; fruit left for dead. Black men turn blue in the sunsetlike cotton dipped in indigo. Policecircle like buzzards, fruit left for dead –a red smudge on a white sheet. Like cotton dipped in indigo, policelights spotlight the streets;a red smudge on a white sheetmarks the end of childhoods.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
s2.goeshow.com | Mugabi Byenkya |Taylor Byas
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
sandiegoreader.com | Taylor Byas |San Diego Reader
Wednesday, September 25, 2024, 7 p.m.Poetry Day: Reading by Taylor Byas3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, 92106Cost: FreeEnjoy a reading by author Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. hosted by the Department of Literature, Journalism, Writing, and Languages as part of the 2024 M.A. in Writing Visiting Writers Series. Subscribe and stay in touchCurated stories, fun places to hang out and top events. Don’t miss out. Subscribe and stay in touchCurated stories, fun places to hang out and top events. Don’t miss out.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
altaonline.com | Taylor Byas
In classical Greek tragedies, choruses use a collective voice to comment on scenes and provide the audience with insights. The distinctly futuristic and nonhuman chorus that sings through Venita Blackburn’s Dead in Long Beach, California operates in a similar way. When I conceptualize this voice as a reader, I think of scenes in movies where a robot begins to break down and its malfunction splinters its voice into multiple dissonant octaves.
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May 22, 2024 | 
eventbrite.com | Children First |Taylor Byas |Czaerra Galicinao Ucol |Meg Kim
Please join us for an in-person poetry reading celebrating Decompose by Séamus Fey with Taylor Byas, Meg Kim, and Czaerra Galicinao Ucol!Please note: Pre-registration for this event is required. By pre-registering, you are verifying that you are fully vaccinated and will wear a mask throughout the entirety of the event. BUY THE BOOK!Our life contains several lives as well as several deaths; we attempt to understand these little rebirths through poetry.
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May 17, 2024 | 
headtopics.com | Taylor Byas
📆 5/17/2024 4:10 AM📰 chicagotribune⏱ Reading Time:75 sec. here3 min. at publisher📊 Quality Score:News: 33%Publisher: 91% United States Headlines News United States Latest News,United States HeadlinesConditions in Illinois courts have resulted in people being denied their rights. A new bill would create a better public defense system. Senate President Don Harmon departs after Gov.
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May 16, 2024 | 
headtopics.com | Taylor Byas
📆 5/16/2024 4:16 AM📰 chicagotribune⏱ Reading Time:56 sec. here2 min. at publisher📊 Quality Score:News: 26%Publisher: 91% United States Headlines News United States Latest News,United States HeadlinesThe Texas school board at the center of civil rights complaints is responsible for helping usher in an era of anti-DEI legislation. that it had contacted a school district in Southlake, Texas, to begin negotiating a resolution agreement in civil rights complaints from four former students.
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May 14, 2024 | 
newberry.org | Taylor Byas
When one thinks of Chicago’s place in literary history, one may call to mind Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow, or the many works of Studs Terkel. In more recent years writers like Sandra Cisneros, Sara Paretsky, and Rebecca Makkai have told compelling and exciting stories about Chicago, its people, and its history.
One can expand the view of this literary tradition to include journalists and historians.
