![]() ![]() Hers are poems that insist on compassion and love-poems of many voices and places across America. ![]() From the United States’ dark chapters of slavery to present-day acts of racial violence, Smith’s pieces consistently match the largeness of their content. Wade, published in April, reads like a book a laureate should write these are poems that draw on weighty subjects and hinge on ideas of belonging. poet laureate and in her fourth collection of poetry, Wade in the Water, is rolling up her sleeves and excavating the basement of this old house. And I think that that’s what we’re called upon to do where we are right now.” Tracy K. Whatever you’re ignoring will be there to be reckoned with until you reckon with it. “Our country is like a really old house,” the historian and journalist Isabel Wilkerson said in an interview barely a week after the 2016 election. ![]()
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You don’t know what may be in store for you, unless you leave this house at once. London, Elkin Mathews, 1893.īelieve what you choose about me. ![]() NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from Lady Windermere’s Fan. ![]() ![]() Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again.įifteen years later, more teenage employees are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. ![]() ![]() Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. "The night was expected to bring tragedy." So begins one of the most highly-anticipated thrillers in recent years. 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