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Three Chapbook Reviews from the New-Generation African Poets (NNE) Box Set

ByKimberly Ann Southwick June 17, 2017

The chapbook box set New-Generation African Poets, edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani, is the fifth of its kind, an annual project of the African Poetry Book Fund, produced by Akashic Books. The set consists of chapbooks by poets either living in Africa or of African heritage.

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Experiments in Perspective

ByAnca Szilagyi September 29, 2014

A crucial lesson I learned early on in my attempts at writing fiction is that every character is you–and not you. Characters have parts of you inside of them because you wrote them. But they are still not you. Chris Abani once said in a workshop that readers will always wonder if your characters are…

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Three Chapbook Reviews from the New-Generation African Poets (NNE) Box Set

Experiments in Perspective

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