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With its origins dating back to 1912, Rammala Library is a little-known repository of more than 12,000 books and 9,000 rare manuscripts. But it has long been neglected, and many invaluable texts might ...

Her nine volumes included “Kyrie,” a suite of sonnets about the 1918 influenza epidemic. She was also Pulitzer Prize finalist and a poet laureate of Vermont.

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From local poetry competitions in Nakuru to sold-out international shows in the US and The Netherlands and over 100,000 ...

Explore the early beginnings of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, one of Nigeria’s most celebrated writers. Learn how her first ...

Diagnostic and symptomatic, accusatory and culpable, communal and personal, The Hollow Men is a poem about that which ails ...