Patricia Smith

Patricia Smith

www.wordwoman.ws NEWS 11/10/2023: Upcoming Poetry Society of America Events Featuring Civitellians  04/18/2023: Civitellians at 2023 PEN World Voices Festival  03/22/2023: Patricia Smith to Give AAP’s 2023 Blaney Lecture 03/16/2022: Patricia Smith Receives the...
Gcina Mhlophe

Gcina Mhlophe

Excerpt From Mata Mata, a children’s musical  Up on the hills of Nomakhanda, there once lived a very unusual kind of tortoise. Yes he had a shell, with thirteen segments like all other mountain tourtoises, and yes, he could pull his head in to hide whenever there was...
Monica Ferrell

Monica Ferrell

AQUARIUM JELLYFISH As so many ears opening, then squeezing shutgreedily on the news of something long expected that, having come, turns out not important,mild companies of effulgent jellyfish swim through the floodlit rays of brilliant cobalt.They gallop singly as...