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Five collections our columnist loved this year.

Five collections our columnist loved this year.

Novelist, poet and storyteller Nii Ayikwei Parkes travels to the Caribbean to research his past – a complex heritage that has been fractured and scattered by the impact of the slave trade

THIS MONTH, a year to the day since the release of their debut album, the trio of Fred Moten (poet), Brandon López (bassist), and Gerald Cleaver (drummer) came to London for a weekend residency at Café Oto. Recorded during the Covid pandemic at New York’s GSI studios and released on the Reading Group label, the group’s self-titled album exemplifies what Anthony Reed, in his book Soundworks, has called “phonopoetics,” a more capacious term than previous indicators like “jazz poetry.�...

LPD confirmed seven people were arrested Thursday for solicitation of prostitution and four for prostitution, in addition to other charges.

The Lubbock Police Department made 11 arrests in a human trafficking operation last week.

Michael Kellehers most recent book of poems is Visible Instruments (Chax, 2017). He is the director of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale.

An introduction to our William J. Harris folio

From literary icons to fresh, buzzworthy talent, here are 25 great books by African American authors you should add to your reading list today.

As one critic put it, his poetry conjured up a world built by “an ecstatic surrealist on imaginal hyperdrive.”