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Kamille D. Whittaker
Jun 16, 20231 min read
"In-between the sun and moon"
In-between the sun and moon, I sit and watch and make some room for letting light and twilight mingle, shaping hope ... Pádraig Ó Tuama...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 26, 20221 min read
Full Bloom: On the kinship and legacy of a literary union
Alice Walker and the late Valerie Boyd illustrated by Hsiao-Ron Cheng for Atlanta Magazine; words by Anjali Enjeti
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jun 13, 20201 min read
Excerpt: "A Little Patch of Something"
By Imani Perry Excerpted from The Paris Review I’m growing microgreens. Every couple of weeks they are sufficiently lush to be snipped...
Kamille D. Whittaker
May 13, 20201 min read
Spring Reading: "The Yellow House" by Sarah M. Broom
#JumpAtTheSuns #Memoir #NarrativeNonfiction #NewOrleans
Kamille D. Whittaker
Apr 15, 20201 min read
Spring Reading: "The Light of the World: A Memoir"
#NonFiction #Memoir #LoveAndLoss
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jan 26, 20201 min read
Derek Walcott: Love After Love and Poetry as Prayer
Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Nov 24, 20191 min read
Of Rivers and Volcanoes
There’s little to nothing on the drive from Liberia to Costa Rica’s Papagayo peninsula to which the Pacific lays claim. Nothing, as in no...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Nov 21, 20191 min read
Lucille Clifton Reads: "Won't You Celebrate With Me?"
[Lucille begins at the :26 mark] won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Aug 7, 20195 min read
Toni Morrison's Eulogy for James Baldwin: His Voice Remembered; Life in His Language
Jimmy, there is too much to think about you, and too much to feel. The difficulty is your life refuses summation - it always did - and...
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jun 23, 20190 min read
Kamille D. Whittaker
Jun 6, 20193 min read
Reading Toni Morrison’s 1973 Summer Essay “Cooking Out”
Forty-six years ago, Toni Morrison wrote an essay about cooking out for the 1973 Summer Reading issue. By TONI MORRISON Uncle Green was...
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Kamille D. Whittaker
Dec 31, 20182 min read
[Excerpt] Pole:"It took me 10 years to learn how to write about my father, about his life and death"
My thoughts: I was once on the receiving end of this term when my Grandmother passed. After being taught its meaning, it created a space...
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