COFFEE SHOP WINDOW right now. Cold outside.

 

 

He didn’t know what a sonnet was. Now he’s won a major poetry prize.


Ajibola Tolase has been awarded the Cave Canem Prize, putting him in a storied literary lineage

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/03/20/cave-canem-2024-ajibola-tolase/

 

An Obama campaign staffer stars in the shimmering autobiographical novel ‘Great Expectations’ 

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-03-18/great-expectations-vinson-cunningham-obama-campaign