Why shouldn’t children’s writers talk of refugees, persecution and genocide? An essay in ‘The Guardian’ by Michael Rosen:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/21/why-shouldnt-childrens-writers-talk-of-refugees-persecution-and-genocide?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

               Tyehimba Jess, American poet.

Poetry is changing. New style. New voices of color. Here’s an article about some of the new poets from CNN:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/poetry-popularity-rising-gorman-kaur-vuong-cec/index.html

 

I got this today. 

 

                                     (I took this photo last week on Union Square in NYC)

‘I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the Baltimore Afro-American, or the Chicago Defender. And I’ll never forget my librarian.’
           ― John Robert Lewis, March: Book One

 

The impact of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize in Literature. A ‘New Yorker’ piece: 

https://apple.news/A6M29HDtYQL2CYEPvd2kA3Q

 

‘Even before he started elementary school, his mother had taught him how to read.’

Tracy K. Smith was Poet Laureate of the country. A book of her collected and new poems comes out next week. It’s called Such Color. Here she talks with TIME magazine:

https://apple.news/AzBUpNhzmQ7600Mj1FIwf4Q