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Because black men can be carefree, too.

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Thanks a lot, Milo Yiannopoulos.

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The protagonist of Sinclair Lewis’s 1935 novel “It Can’t Happen Here” sees something dark brewing in American politics.

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Donald Trump's transition team is eyeing staggering cuts to the federal agencies that support the arts, humanities, and public broadcasting, the Hill reports. Under the team's plan, the non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports public television, public radio, and PBS, would be privatized. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), which offer grants for artistic and educational productions, exhibitions, research, and more, would be eliminated entirely. As The Hill points out, the proposed plan hews closely to a blueprint prepared by conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, which has had an outsize influence on the staffing and direction of the new administration. Two transition team members reportedly discussing the cuts to arts funding, Russ Vought and John Gray, previously worked for the Heritage Foundation, and for vice president-elect Mike Pence. The U.S. has always trailed countries like Canada and

Which of these books have you read?

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David Meltzer was born in Rochester, New York, and raised in Brooklyn. He began his literary career during the San Francisco Beat and Berkeley Renaissance period in North Beach, California, and his work was included in the anthology, The New American Poetry 1945-1960. At the age of 20 he recorded his poetry with jazz musicians in Los Angeles and also became a singer-songwriter and guitarist for several bands during the 1960s, including The Serpent Power. He is the author of over 40 volumes of poetry, including Arrows: Selected Poetry 1957–1992, No Eyes: Lester Young (2000), Beat Thing (2004), and David’s Copy (2005). He also published fiction and essays, and edited numerous anthologies and collections of interviews, such as The Secret Garden: An Anthology in the Kabbalah (1976), Reading Jazz (1993), Writing Jazz (1999), Birth: Anthology of Ancient Texts, Songs, Prayers, and Stories (1981), Death: Anthology of Texts, Songs, Charms, Prayers, and Tales...

RIP to David Meltzer, who I studied with for a little over a year when I first started grad school.

Author wins for The Sellout, a satire of US racial politics, making him the first American writer to win award

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Annually, PEN Center USA produces and presents a seven-month Emerging Voices Fellowship pairing five budding writers with professional Los Angeles-based writer/mentors.

"I'm the first black woman to write for Marvel," Gay explains. "Which makes no sense."

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A network of book professionals committed to supporting and increasing the number of Latino/a/x in the publishing industry, as well as promoting literature by, for, and about Latino/a/x people.

We are giving away 2 proof copies of Audrey T Carroll’s new book “Queen of Pentacles.” How can you win one? Easy! The poem ‘North Tarrytown’ was first published in the zine “Feminine Inquiry. What other poem has Audrey published in that zine?

Send your answers to choosethesword at hotmail dot com by August 15, 2016 11:59 PM Pacific

Winners will be selected from the correct answers

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As books from major publishers get bigger and more expensive, smaller houses are taking risks on more creative, original works.

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