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	<title>Black Looks &#187; Poetry</title>
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		<title>Of Autumn and Winter</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/of-autumn-and-winter.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lesotho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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Ask why it is that everyone
hopes they&#8217;re gonna go one day into
the sky of heaven, ignoring the stars above them,
why many of us end up in gaol.
Ask van Gogh why he cut his ear
and painted potato-eaters without light,
and sunflowers with sunlight. Ask
and the answer will be given to you; knock,
and the shit will be knocked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Mr. President, I Thought You Should Know</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/dear-mr-president-i-thought-you-should-know.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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It’s February and the wind’s so bitter
my toddler, in the front pack, slides his hands
under my armpits and buries his face in my scarf.
I’m sorry to report that some people are still nasty
on the number 1 subway and my son’s teacher
has acute leukemia. I don’t expect you to change
everything or for everything to change. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Geoffrey Philp</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/03/interview-with-geoffrey-philp.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caribbean Literature]]></category>

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CLS: Mr. Philp, you have been blogging enthusiastically since 2005. What made you start doing it and how has it rewarded you?
Geoffrey Philp: I began blogging at the suggestion of my daughter and the rewards have been tremendous. I am not only doing something that I love, but it has served as a viable platform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solange</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/solange.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie Quarcoopome</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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Sol
Ange
Earth
Angel
Deep brown eyes set in khol innocent despair cast in stone
Your high arched brow asks sweet questions of hard life
Sol-ange with feet that cannot fly tread softly on master’s heart while the others run
Pounding the red earth smooth beneath the soles of soldiers’ boots beneath
The souls of fighting folk
Solange of the delicate thighs and soft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clifton, honored poet from Buffalo, dies</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/clifton_honored_poet_from_buffalo_dies.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RIP]]></category>

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By Jay Rey
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Updated: February 14, 2010, 12:14
Lucille Clifton, born and raised in the Buffalo area before going on to achieve some of  the literary world&#8217;s highest honors as a major American poet, died Saturday morning at Johns  Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore at age 73, her sister told The Buffalo News.
Clifton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howls of protest at Dennis Brutus concert</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/02/howls_of_protest_at_dennis_brutus_concert.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[african poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa Poetry]]></category>

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Written by John Chimunhu, Monday, 08 February 2010 10:53
HARARE &#8211; A memorial concert for the late Zimbabwe-born South African poet, academic and social activist, Dennis Brutus, turned into a howl of protest against President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s social policies.
The event on January 29 was organised by Zimcodd, Magamba Cultural Activist Network and SAPSN at the Book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Nothing makes sense anymore, my sister&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/nothing_makes_sense_anymore_my_sister.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/nothing_makes_sense_anymore_my_sister.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earthquake]]></category>

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A beautiful and moving poem by Jamaican writer and poet, Geoffrey Philp.
Nothing makes sense anymore, my sister.
Nothing makes sense anymore, my sister.
The dead words in my mouth can’t say how I feel
And forgive me, Lord, but it hurts when I kneel.
For they say the age of miracles is over,
But when will the horrors end so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African Cities Reader</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/african_cities_reader.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sokari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa - Creative Arts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African cities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chimurenga]]></category>

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The African Center for Cities together with Chimurenga Magazine call for submissions for the 2010 African Cities Reader II:Mobilities &#038; Fixtures.  The Reader which will include a range of genres including &#8220;text, image, sound and performance&#8221; will 
become a forum where Africans tell their own stories, draw their own maps and represent their own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti Cherie</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/haiti_cherie_.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/haiti_cherie_.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Annie Quarcoopome</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Haiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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What word can encompass stretch its arms and wrap them around
A day when the world returns to the dust it was
Before we fashioned orderly chaos and became free
The First Negro Republic raises weakened arms to wipe
The Ash
From its eyes water and ash to mould human tragedy
What word can encompass… we have asked before
Encompass passion itself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prophet seekers</title>
		<link>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/prophet_seekers.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.blacklooks.org/2010/01/prophet_seekers.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rethabile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lesotho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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Today I know we&#8217;re going to unbury
the dead to just get this over with
before it engulfs us. We&#8217;ll wake Motuba up,
Fischer, rouse Biko and Lumumba, Hani,
put their hands on a stack of bibles and
make the questioning begin. To hell, then,
if we can&#8217;t bring the child to the tree
on which their bodies were hanged,
arcs stopped dead, [...]]]></description>
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