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		<title>Imagined Architecture: A Review of Kiki Petrosino&#8217;s FORT RED BORDER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[View title on Goodreads.com] Petrosino, Kiki. Fort Red Border. Louisville: Sarabande Books, 2009. 88 pp. $14.95 (paper). Reviewed by DéLana Dameron From her statement in the collection&#8217;s acknowledgments, Kiki Petrosino wants to make clear that her poems in Fort Red Border &#8220;describe things that are entirely imaginary [and] do not describe [...] actual persons&#8221; (Petrosino, x). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D.C. as Literary Reflecting Pool: Five Questions for Carmen Gillespie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Literary scholar and poet Carmen Gillespie asks us to consider the significance of the United States capital in African-American literature at a time when America is still learning how to read its first African-American lead political protagonist. Dr. Gillespie also discusses the role that poetry can play in reshaping the perception of national traumas such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Woman: Erykah Badu and the Return of the Ankh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Miles Marshall Lewis As an occasional fiction editor, I&#8217;ve seen my share of short stories starring female protagonists variously described as black versions of the Icelandic avant-garde singer, Björk. In the real world outside the land of literature, the closest thing we have to that ideal in R&#38;B is Dallas&#8217;s own Erykah Badu, as evidenced most recently by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like a Moth to a Flame: Pain and Release in Patrick Rosal’s MY AMERICAN KUNDIMAN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[View title on Goodreads.com] Rosal, Patrick. My American Kundiman. New York: Persea Books, 2006. 65 pp. $13.95 (paper). Reviewed by Jonas Holdeman The attraction of our primordial cycle of pain-and-release&#8212;like a child probing a loose tooth&#8212;is what pulls me into the poems in Patrick Rosal&#8217;s second book, My American Kundiman.  Reading &#8220;Beast&#8221; from the first section of the collection, and one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“The Beauty of Troubled Tongues”: A Review of Crystal Williams&#8217; TROUBLED TONGUES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[View title on goodreads.com] Williams, Crystal. Troubled Tongues. Detroit: Lotus Press, 2009. 75 pp. $18.00 (paper). Reviewed by L. Lamar Wilson Shake it loose, baby, double head, double tongue. By the time readers get to guidelines thirteen and twenty-four from Crystal Williams&#8217; &#8220;How to Become a Black Woman&#8221; in the final section of Troubled Tongues, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POST NO ILLS Editor Kyle G. Dargan Featured on The DC Place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[VISIT THE DC PLACE]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postnoills.com/main/?p=117</link>
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		<title>A Dark Warmth: A Review of MISSISSIPPI DAMNED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed By Nijla Mumin Mississippi Damned (2009) [ Movie Website ] Written and Directed by Tina Mabry Runtime: 120 Minutes Mississippi Damned, written and directed by Tina Mabry, carves out an expansive visual presence with its bold and layered portrayal of a black family in Mississippi. The film follows two generations, spanning the years of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postnoills.com/main/?p=115</link>
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		<title>Sea Change: The Wave Poetry Bus Tour, with Notes toward Survival of the Species</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Dan Brady &#8220;Evolution favours what is good at replicating itself, rather than what is good.&#8221; Culture and Prosperity by John Kay Natural selection tells us that organisms will choose their mates based on traits favorable to the success of the species. In theory, each consecutive generation is better adapted to the environment than the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postnoills.com/main/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Viennese Idol: A Review of Rita Dove’s SONATA MULATTICA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[View title on Goodreads.com] Dove, Rita. Sonata Mulattica: A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play. New York: W. W. Norton &#38; Co., 2009. 240 pp. $24.95 (cloth). Reviewed by Reginald Harris It is harder to play long than fast. It&#8217;s more than stretching a line&#8212;suspension is what we yearn for, that delicate fulcrum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disjointed Narratives: A Review of Kevin Prufer&#8217;s NATIONAL ANTHEM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[View Title on Goodreads.com] Prufer, Kevin. National Anthem. New York: Four Way Book, 2008. 82 pp. $15.95 (paper). Reviewed by Reginald Dwayne Betts There are poets writing who know a poem is also place, a crowded room where one can be whomever he or she desires, who understand that to be able to write a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Soul of a Man/Where is the Love?: Mitchell Douglas’ COOLING BOARD &amp; Ed Pavlic’s WINNERS HAVE YET TO BE ANNOUNCED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[View Titles on Goodreads.com: pavlic -- douglas] Reviewed by Keith Mitchell Douglas, Mitchell. Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem. Granada Hills, CA: Red Hen, 2009. 112 pp. ISBN 1597091405. $19.95 (paper). Pavlic, Ed. Winners Have Yet to Be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2008. 208 pp. ISBN 0820330973. $19.95 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Assessing Holes&#8221;: A Review of Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon&#8217;s ]OPEN INTERVAL[</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[View Title on Press Catalog] Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae. ] Open Interval [. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2009. 96 pp. $14.95 (paper). Reviewed by CM Burroughs Open interval, a mathematical term, refers to a line that has no endpoints. For the book Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon has put forth, I consider the term a reference to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postnoills.com/main/?p=110</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The Oddest Knock&#8221;: A Review of Kay Ryan&#8217;s THE NIAGARA RIVER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ryan, Kay. The Niagara River. Grove Press Poetry Series, 2005. 72 pp. $13.00 (paper). [View title on Goodreads.com] Reviewed by Marcela Malek Sulak The work of the contemporary lyricist may be that of ordering the chaos that swirls around the shell-shocked I.  But Kay Ryan&#8217;s long, thin poems are the tempest&#8217;s very stir sticks.  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden from History: A Review of Afua Cooper&#8217;s THE HANGING OF ANGELIQUE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cooper, Afua. The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. 349 pp. $22.95 (paper). [View title on Goodreads.com] Reviewed by Reginald Harris Poet and historian Afua Cooper&#8217;s compelling The Hanging of Angélique recreates and interrogates the story of the enslaved Afro-Portuguese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postnoills.com/main/?p=108</link>
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		<title>American Poetry Museum Inauguration Reading (01.19.2009)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sumner School + The American Poetry Museum + Cave Canem Foundation]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postnoills.com/main/?p=107</link>
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		<title>DeLana Dameron Reviews Janice Harrington&#8217;s EVEN THE HOLLOW MY BODY MADE IS GONE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Harrington, Janice N. Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone. Rochester: BOA Editions, 2007. 85 pp. $15.50 (paper). [View title on Goodreads.com] In Janice N. Harrington&#8217;s Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone, memory is fleeting, constantly trying to fly away. How to pin it down, to gather it into a graspable reach, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postnoills.com/main/?p=106</link>
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		<title>&#8220;MARA DIGITAL&#8221;: An Interview with NBC News Reporter Mara Schiavocampo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As is currently the case in many sectors, broadcast journalism is scrambling to figure out how to tap into and employ (and exploit . . . hey, it&#8217;s capitalism) new media and the public&#8217;s relationship to the developing formats. NBC News seems to have found a clue, if not an answer, in their new Digital [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postnoills.com/main/?p=105</link>
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		<title>Let Me Do My Piece: Holly Bass and Anu Yadav in Conversation [audio]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of POST NO ILLS&#8217; efforts to encourage and disseminate exchanges between contemporary artists, we present the following conversation between performance artists Holly Bass and Anu Yadav. Curious to see what would happen when one puts two one-woman show artists at a kitchen table, we schlepped our gear over to Columbia Heights and let [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postnoills.com/main/?p=104</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Look at Me&#8221;: A Review of Martha Southgate’s THIRD GIRL FROM THE LEFT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[. Southgate, Martha. Third Girl from the Left. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 288 pp. $24.00 (cloth). [View title on Goodreads.com] Review by Tiphanie Yanique The running metaphor of Martha Southgate&#8217;s latest novel is the movies: from the Dorothy Dandridge films that one character frequents, to the blaxploitation flicks another acts in, to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.postnoills.com/main/?p=103</link>
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		<title>Cool Young History: Lupe Fiasco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Miles Marshall Lewis The world has a little while longer to wait for the end of Lupe Fiasco. The twenty-six-year-old Chicago MC&#8212;born Wasulu Muhammad Jaco&#8212;has declared way in advance that his delayed third album, LUPN, will most likely be his last. Hiphop has heard this kind of talk before. But Lupe pulling the plug [...]]]></description>
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