This page is a complete index to all posts published here at Kinna Reads displayed in reverse chronological order from the first publication date of March 11, 2010 to today.

• Happening Soon: Pa Gya and #Akefest18
• Short Commentary on The End of Days, Far From My Father, and Maid in SA
• Six Degrees of Separation, From Tales of the City to Nervous Conditions
• Short Reviews of a Kang, a Clemmons and a Manyika
• Six Degrees of Separation, From The Poisonwood Bible to Ghana Must Go
• A Year-to-Date Reading Report and Plans for May
• Currently: I’m up for the #Readathon
• “Wrong Number Number Two” by Ama Ata Aidoo #PoetryMonth
• “The Banquet” by Wana Udobang #PoetryMonth
• “Oughta Be A Woman” by June Jordan #PoetryMonth
• “Bathing in Lake Victoria” by Ngwatilo Mawiyoo #PoetryMonth
• “Our Mother Died Expecting” by Efe Paul Azino #PoetryMonth
• “2 Pelicans” by Ali Cobby Eckermann #PoetryMonth
• “This Zinc Roof” by Kei Miller #PoetryMonth
• “Mathematician” by Poetra Asantewa #PoetryMonth
• “The Afternoon Sun” by C. P. Cavafy #PoetryMonth
• “Who Said It Was Simple” by Audre Lorde #PoetryMonth
• “My Mother in Three Photographs” by Susan Kiguli #PoetryMonth
• “Kumukanda” by Kayo Chingonyi. #PoetryMonth
• “May This be a House of Joy” by Lucille Clifton #PoetryMonth
• Yewande Omotoso, Marie Ndiaye and nine others make International Dublin Literary Award 2018 Shortlist
• On Andrés Barba’s Such Small Hands and José Saramago’s Cain
• “Song of Winnie” by Gwendolyn Brooks #PoetryMonth
• From “Winnie” by Gwendolyn Brooks as we begin April is #PoetryMonth
• 12 Short Story Collections to Read in 2018
• “Black Joy” by Koleka Putuma
• March 31st Deadline for 2018 Writivism Prizes and The 2018 Golden Baobab Prize
• (Cover Reveal) She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak
• Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, seven others awarded 2018 Windham-Campbell Prizes
• 2018 Africa Reading Challenge
• Currently: I’m up too early
• “II ii – I have to think about what it means to be here…” by Dionne Brand
• “Self Portrait With No Flag” by Safia Elhillo
• “There Are No Honest Poems About Dead Women” by Audre Lorde
• “In Time of War” by Eli Tetteh
• 2017 Africa Reading Challenge
• For #InternationalWomensDay: “On Reading Jackie Kay” by Ama Ata Aidoo
• Currently: Eagerly Anticipating #Akefest16 in Abeokuta
• African Writers and Storytellers Resident in Ghana: Apply for the Nana Kofi Addo and the Abena Korantemaa Prizes
• Fiston Mwanza Mujilla and Tram 83 win 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature
• Short Story Day Africa announces 2016 theme and dates for submission
• 2016 Writivism Short Story Prize opens for submssions
• TBR Book Tag!
• #LoveInLiteraryAfrica: A Reading List
• A Short Note Upon A First Reading of Kintu
• Jerome Reviews Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Currently: Harmattan in a New Year, Bookish Goals and Reading Challenges
• 2016 Africa Reading Challenge
• The shortlist for 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature is announced and Tram 83 makes the cut
• Please, let’s stand with @BinyavangaW
• What’s up with the outdated language in description of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing?
• My 27-Book Haul from @AkeFestival #AkeFest15
• #AkeFest15 Day 2: School Visits, meeting folks and books!
• “There are stories” by Nana Nyarko Boateng
• Currently: Heading to the Ake Arts and Book Festival
• “Power” by Audre Lorde
• “A Falling” by Ama Ata Aidoo
• Tram 83 and The Fisherman among nine books named on longlist for 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature
• I’m startled by this image ….
• African Poets, the Brunel University Prize and the Sillerman Prize are open for submissions.
• We’ve lost Lauretta Ngcobo
• “I Want You to Know” by Micere Githae Mugo
• “Now” by Audre Lorde
• “for the range of his sympathy”
• Mr. Loverman, by Bernardine Evaristo
• Marlon James, the 2015 Man Booker Prize Winner
• “the lost women” by Lucille Clifton
• Svetlana Alexievich wins the 2015 Nobel in Literature, and I talk about the Prize
• Three mini book reviews – Reading with kids; The Justice; The History of Love
• Jerome Reviews The Political History of Ghana (1950-2013) by Dr Obed Yao Asamoah
• Currently : Finding my way back here
• “How We Forget” By Loyce Gayo
• Two Additions to the Stack
• ROY G BIV in Seven Books
• My Maths Teacher Hates Me and Other Stories, Jalada’s new Flash Fiction Anthology
• Aminatta Forna Among Seven Women Writers Nominated for the 2016 Neustadt Prize
• A Suggested Reading List for Penny (and you)
• “What We Want” by Mary Oliver
• Jerome Reviews The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Currently : Getting ready for Abidjan, #AfDBAM2015 and #CSOForumAbidjan
• László Krasznahorkai wins the 2015 Man Booker International Prize
• Winner of The Man Booker International Prize will be announced today. Four Africans are up for the award.
• Online Magazines: May 2015 Issues
• “Translations” by Adrienne Rich
• Link Gems: Ghansah on Morrison; Akpabli on Fufu; Gachagua on Poetry and Grief; and more.
• Call for Applications: AWDF’s “Writing for Social Change” Workshop for African Women
• 10 Poetry Books To Add To Your Reading List
• “Unclaimed” by Clifton Gachagua
• Yiyun Li wins The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award with ‘A Sheltered Woman’
• From “You are in the dark, in the car…” by Claudia Rankine
• Nana Malone and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers Will Read in Accra this Week
• “Some of My Worst Wounds” by Lorna Goodison
• “Since you” by Dionne Brand
• “Dust to Dust” by Tsitsi Jaji
• “here rests” by Lucille Clifton
• “Tonight” by Ladan Osman
• In Search of the New for (US) National Poetry Month
• My Shadow Jalada Prize Longlist
• “Freezing in Sunshine” by Ama Ata Aidoo
• Jerome Reviews A. K. Awedoba’s An Ethnographic Study of Northern Ghanaian Conflicts: Towards a Sustainable Peace
• Jalada’s ‘Afrofuture(s)’ and The Jalada Prize
• “September, 2053” by Nana Nyarko Boateng
• A Reading List for @SorayaSpeaks
• 2015 Africa Reading Challenge
• Here are the Winners of the 2014 Golden Baobab Prizes
• Additions to the Stack from The Book Trust
• “1994” by Lucille Clifton
• Top 10s: Books I Really Want To Read But Don’t Own Yet
• On Writers and Honorifics
• “Yaa” by Nana Nyarko Boateng
• Jerome Reviews Alifa Rifaat’s Distant View of a Minaret
• Notes on Okwiri Oduor’s ‘My Father’s Head’
• Link Gems : Kahora on writing, anti-Oppressive SFF, typos and other things of interest
• Top 10s: Authors whose Books Overrun My Shelves
• Jerome reviews Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather
• Wole Soyinka At 80
• A Stack of Twenty-Two Books Seeking Attention
• “We promise we shall build the new cities over your bodies” – Kofi Awoonor. It’s his birthday!
• Jerome reviews Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen
• Call for Applications: Creative Non-Fiction Workshop for African Women
• Call for Applications: Editorial Skills Development Workshop
• Golden Baobab Dedicates $20,000 to African Children’s Literature
• ‘Meet the Writers’, ‘Paroles de Femmes’ Exhibition and The Afro Soul Concert to Celebrate International Women’s Day
• The Atlantic’s Twitter Book Club, 1book140, will pick an African book for its March Read
• Call for Submissions: The 6th Regional Residency for African Women Writers
• Forthcoming: Far from My Father by Véronique Tadjo
• To be read: Dust, Indigo, Queer African Reader, and Foreign Gods, Inc.
• Creative Writing Master Class with Yewande Omotoso, March 8th in Accra
• Jalada Africa’s ‘Sketch of a Bald Woman in the Semi-Nude and Other Stories’
• Review: Africa in Contemporary Perspective: A Textbook for Undergraduate Students
• “Vacating an Apartment” by Agha Shahid Ali
• Etisalat Prize Announces Inaugural Shortlist
• Plans for My Reading in 2014
• 2014 Africa Reading Challenge
• 10 Short Story Collections to Read in 2014
• A haiku by Kobayashi Issa as we start the New Year with January in Japan
• Happy Holidays and Afenhyiapa!
• “It is the struggle of the African people” – Nelson Mandela
• Africa39 is calling all Fiction Writers under 39 from Africa South of the Sahara and the Diaspora
• Njabulo Ndebele revises The Cry of Winnie Mandela
• Winners of the 8-book #GhanaLit Giveaway
• It’s a Wrap! The 3rd Ghanaian Literature Week Concludes
• Meshack Asare, writer of Children’s Literature
• An 8-Book Giveaway for Ghanaian Literature Week
• A note on Ghanaian Literature Week
• Guest Post: Celebrating Ghanaian Literature Week with Children in Mind
• Nana Yaw Sarpong Reviews “Small Changes Within the Dynamic” by Martin Egblewogbe
• Lady Jaye Reviews Ayi Kwei Armah’s The BeautyFul Ones Are Not Yet Born
• Five Recommended Short Story Collections by Ghanaian Writers
• The 3rd Ghanaian Literature Week
• This Sunday, on the Eve of Ghanaian Literature Week
• Trending on Blog: The Review of Tropical Fish
• Shortlist for the 2013 Golden Baobab Prizes, winners to be announced on November 13.
• “The thicker the woods, the vaster the vista: the Valley of Obviously.” – Utopia by Wislawa Symzborska
• Ten writers to finish book started by Jose Saramago
• This November: Ghanaian Literature Week and NaBloPoMo because fun and wild go together.
• Mia Couto did indeed win the 2014 Neustadt Prize
• The Neustadt Prize: A fabulous international reading list
• For Short Monday: 10 Short Stories to Read Online
• Nikki Giovanni talks beer, reads ‘Quilts’ in Accra
• Announcing The 3rd Ghanaian Literature Week, November 11 – 17, 2013
• The 2nd African Women in Film Forum meets in Accra, September 23 – 25, 2013 and there’ll be writers!
• “my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell” by Gwendolyn Brooks
• The 2013 Golden Baobab Prizes Longlist Announced
• Introduction to African Women Writers: A List for A Reader
• Boakyewaa Glover launches The Justice
• On Top Ten Lists, Reading and Blogging
• Nana Darkoa Reviews Yewande Omotoso’s Bom Boy
• On Bessie Head’s Tales of Tenderness and Power
• Welcome to Bessie Head Week: July 6 – 12, 2013
• ‘For Bessie Head’ by Ama Ata Aidoo
• On finding and losing Bessie Head
• A Celebration of Bessie Head and her Work: July 6-12, 2013
• 21 Days/21 Poems: ‘Lagoon’ by Odia Ofeimun
• Call for Submissions for The Golden Baobab Prize
• 21 Days/21 Poems: ‘Discovery’ by Olive Senior
• Dillard on the Reading Life
• Coming Up in June 2013
• Two WordPress.com Experts and One Series of Blog Work
• Blogging the Caine: ‘Miracle’ by Tope Folarin
• 21 Days/21 Poems: ‘My Abebà’ by Ribka Sibhatu
• 21 Days/21 Poems: ‘The Cry of the Bird” by Nimrod
• 21 Days/21 Poems: ‘Eclipse’ by Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang
• 21 Days/21 Poems: ‘Ugly’ by Warsan Shire
• Achebe, African Writers and Readers
• 21 Days/21 Poems: ‘won’t you celebrate with me’ by Lucille Clifton
• Yari Yari Ntoaso: Veronique Tadjo, Doreen Baingana to speak at Closing Plenary
• Yari Yari Ntoaso: Day 2, GhanaLit, YA Lit, Emerging Writers and Readings!
• Yari Yari Ntoaso Begins Today, Angela Davis to Speak at Opening Plenary
• 21 Days/21 Poems: ‘Stank with Sweat’ by Nana Nyarko Boateng
• Coming Up in May 2013
• Yari Yari Ntoaso: Continuing the Dialogue – An International Conference on Literature by Women of African Ancestry
• 21 Days/21 Poems: “I Don’t Miss It” by Tracy K. Smith
• Martin Egblewogbe, author of ‘Mr. Happy and the Hammer of God’ to read at Ghana Voices Series
• Save the Date: Yari Yari Ntoaso, May 16-19 2013, Accra, Ghana
• 21 Days/21 Poems: “I have been a stranger in a strange land” by Rita Dove
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Naked by Tari Mtetwa
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Grass will Grow by Jonathan Kariara
• 21 Days/ 21 Poems: Jolademi by Lola Shoneyin
• 21 Days/ 21 Poems: Under and Over by Shailja Patel
• 21 Days/ 21 Poems: Oregon Elegy by Christian Campbell
• 21 Days/ 21 Poems: When Clothes Were Small by Tamer Fathy
• 21 Days/ 21 Poems: Castletown, Isle of Man by Jackie Kay
• #BlogCamp13 Part 2: Ghana Blog and Social Media Awards
• Another 21 Days/21 Poems for (US) National Poetry Month
• Shorts to Get Me Through
• #BlogCamp13 Part 1: It was well worth the Fever!
• Blogcamp 2013, the Fever!
• My writers
• A Giant has Fallen; Chinua Achebe (1930 – 2013)
• ‘My Faithful Mother Tongue’ by Czeslaw Milosz
• ‘langwij’
• Losing a Language by W.S. Merwin
• As Though Exiled From Myself
• #AWDFbookslam
• International Women’s Day
• Apologies for last post – my blog was used for training purposes
• The President is Dead
• Incoming Goodies from the Post Office
• “Their Behaviour” by Dennis Brutus
• Socialite
• “blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton
• “Grown Up” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• “Love After Love” by Derek Walcott
• April is (US) National Poetry Month and we head to Ithaka
• Update and Ghana Decides
• Kinna Reads is Two Years Old Today
• Link Gems
• 2012 Awards Round-up (1): It Begins
• February, March 2012
• Online Magazines: February 2012 Issues
• The Ongoing Silence
• Whitney Houston (1963 – 2012)
• Link Gems
• Reading List: Anthologies of African Literature
• January, February 2012
• Wislawa Szymborska (2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012)
• Tirra Lirra by the River – Jessica Anderson
• Online Magazines: January 2012 Issues
• A North Africa Reading List
• 2012 Africa Reading Challenge
• 7 Days of Shorts
• African Roar 2011: “Longing for Home” by Hajira Amla
• Opening Spaces, edited by Yvonne Vera
• “The Falling Girl” by Dino Buzzatti
• More 2012 Reading Challenges
• Lists: Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century
• Can Chameleons Crawl? On 2012 Reading Challenges
• Reading and Plans for January 2012
• “To the New Year” by W. S. Merwin
• 2011 in Review
• 2011 Awards Round-up (9): The Final List of the Year
• ‘the alternative, the underground list of favorite books of 2011’
• Link Gems
• Mini-Reviews at the End of 2011
• Online Magazines: December 2011 Issues
• Afenhyiapa!
• On Completing What’s In A Name? 4 Challenge
• Why haven’t I read a novel by Lindsey Collen?
• Choose Books
• Link Gems
• African Roar 2011: A Writer’s Lot by Zukiswa Wanner
• Happy 100th Birthday, Naguib Mahfouz
• Cassava Republic (Nigeria) to host a Christmas Fair
• A Mad Dash to 100
• African Roar 2011: Main by NoViolet Bulawayo
• 2011 Awards Round-up (8): So Many Winners…
• Link Gems
• On #GhanaLit Chat with Nii Ayikwei Parkes
• It’s a Wrap! Ghanaian Literature Week
• Mummy, read: Koku the Cockerel by Franka Maria Andoh
• On Tales from Different Tails by Nana Awere Damoah
• Between Sisters – Adwoa Badoe
• Guest Review: Mistress of the Game by Asabea Ashun
• Guest Post: Fiona Leonard on her novel, The Chicken Thief
• Twitter Chat with Nii Ayikwei Parkes #GhanaLit
• The Reader in Ghana
• Mr Happy and the Hammer of God – Martin Egblewogbe
• Ghanaian Literature Week
• On Going Away and Extended Relatives
• African Roar 2011: Witch’s Brew by Ruzvidzo Stanley Mupfudza
• Online Magazines: November 2011 Issues
• Link Gems
• love in the kingdom of oil – Nawal El Saadawi
• Introducing African Roar 2011
• Coming up in November
• Rain, Rain and Yet More Rain
• 24hr Read-A-Thon: The Progress Post
• “On Last Lines” – Suzanne Buffam
• “To Any Reader” – Robert Louis Stevenson
• “There is no Frigate like a Book” – Emily Dickinson
• The Eve of Dewey’s Read-a-Thon
• Winner of the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop (October 2011 edition)
• Chimurenga Chronic to be released tomorrow, October 19
• Link Gems
• Literary Giveaway Blog Hop: October 15 – 19
• Wangari Maathai, “Dear Fresh Spirit”
• African Cities Reader
• The 2nd Annual Ghanaian Literature Week
• “This Is All The Orientation You Are Gonna Get” by John Jodzio
• Oh I should get that, or Additions to my Wishlist #8
• The 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Tomas Tranströmer
• My picks for the 2011 Nobel: It’s pointless, but why not?
• “Waiting” by Chika Unigwe
• Mummy, read: Mayowa and the Masquerades by Lola Shoneyin
• Celebrating Nigerian Independence Day with Books
• As the Crow Flies – Véronique Tadjo
• To Margaret Jull Costa
• “Requiem” by Slavko Zupcic
• 2011 Awards Round-up (7): Old Awards, New Prizes
• Link Gems
• Gone, but not fishing
• “Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?”
• “I lost my mother’s watch”
• Mummy, read: Voice in the Forest by Efua T. Sutherland
• Google pays homage to Jorge Luis Borges with a Doodle
• “The Woman Who Stole the Rain” by Teolinda Gersão
• Farafina Books to publish Binyavanga Wainaina’s memoir
• You’re Not a Country, Africa by Pius Adesanmi
• The Yellow Arrow – Victor Pelevin
• Bedside Stories
• Additions to the Stack
• “The secret is out: we are men!” – James Baldwin writes to Angela Y. Davis
• The Day the Leader was Killed – Naguib Mahfouz
• 2011 Awards Round-up (6): Wins, Shortlists and Nominations
• Reading in July: Going Short, Orange July and an Arabic Literature challenge
• Winner of the Literary Giveaway Blog Hop
• Literary Giveaway Blog Hop: June 25-29
• (Mini-Review): Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
• José Saramago’s Best Five
• In which I look to a find of books to get me blogging again
• Oh I should get that, or Additions to my Wishlist #7
• Queen Pokou – Véronique Tadjo
• 2011 Awards Round-up (5): Wins and some Controversies
• An Intermission…
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Some Part of the Lyric by Gregory Orr
• 21 Days/21 Poems: wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton
• 21 Days/21 Poems: The Bridge Between by Rethabile Masilo
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Marrysong by Dennis Scott
• 21 Days/21 Poems: The Meaning of Africa by Abioseh Nicol
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Up-Hill by Christina Rossetti
• 21 Days/21 Poems: If We Must Die by Claude McKay
• 21 Days/21 Poems: This Was Once a Love Poem by Jane Hirshfield
• 21 Days/21 Poems: From “Under Milk Wood” by Dylan Thomas
• 21 Days/21 Poems: The Dancer by Gcina Mhlope
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Purple Bathing Suit by Louise Glück
• Short Monday: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
• 21 Days/ 21 Poems: Sick by Shel Silverstein
• Sunday Thoughts
• 21 Days/21 Poems: The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Ode to My Socks by Pablo Neruda
• Awards Round-up (4): Shortlists for the IMPAC and Orange Prizes
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Sunflowers by Pamela Mordecai
• 21 Days/21 Poems: A Curve in the Tell by Nana Fredua-Agyeman
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Next Day by Randall Jarrell
• 24hr Read-A-Thon: Progress
• 24 hr Read-A-Thon
• 21 Days/21 Poems: The City by C.P. Cavafy
• Calling all Poets: The Montreal International Poetry Prize
• We Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Mozambican Stories – Luis Bernardo Honwana
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Some People by Wislawa Szymborska
• Round-up: Awards, Shortlists and Longlists (3)
• 21 Days/21 Poems: Fifteen, Maybe Sixteen Things to Worry About by Judith Viorst
• 21 Days/21 Poems for (US) National Poetry Month
• Poem #46: Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove
• Short Monday: The Go-Slow by Nnedi Okorafor
• Round-up: Awards, Shortlists and Longlists (2)
• Link Gems
• Literary Blog Hop: A Book to Live More, Live Better
• (Mini-Review): Belarmino and Apolonio by Ramon Pérez de Ayala
• Poem #45: Lighthead’s Guide to the Galaxy by Terrance Hayes
• “Every morning I tell myself, Today has to be productive…” – Italo Calvino in the Paris Review
• Link Gems
• Kinna Reads is One Year Old Today
• Round-up: Awards, Shortlists and Longlists
• A Recommendation and Poem #44: Adlestrop by Edward Thomas
• Death in Spring – Mercè Rodoreda
• Literary Blog Hop, A Funny Book
• Poem #43: “The Reader” by Richard Wilbur
• fledgling – Octavia Butler
• Loss and Poem #42: Untitled by Gregory Orr
• Happy Birthday to Toni Morrison
• What’s in a Name 4 Challenge
• The Cry of Winnie Mandela: A Novel – Njabulo S. Ndebele
• Oh I should get that, or Additions to my Wishlist #6
• Reading List: Selected Contemporary American Women Writers
• Poem #41: TRƆTRƆ by Kwadwo Kwarteng
• Plans for my reading in 2011
• Poem #40: “New Year’s Morning” by Helen Hunt Jackson
• 2010 in Review
• Wrap-up: 2010 African Diaspora Reading Challenge
• The Laureate’s Curse? I Think Not
• Sunday Thoughts and Updates: I’m still here
• Help Me Choose My Next Big Read
• On Completing the Orbis Terrarum Reading Challenge
• African Books Nominated for the 2011 IMPAC Dublin Prize
• To Be Found: Books by Adaora Lily Ulasi
• Poem #39: So, we’ll go no more a roving by George, Lord Byron
• Sunday Thoughts and Updates: Wrap-up of Ghana Literature week
• Mummy, read one last time: Sosu’s Call by Meshack Asare
• On Keta and the Atlantic Ocean: Poems #37 and #38
• The Other Crucifix – Benjamin Kwakye
• The Healers – Ayi Kwei Armah
• Sunday Thoughts and Updates: A Week of Ghanaian Literature
• Literary Blog Hop, A Difficult Book
• In Dependence – Sarah Ladipo Manyika
• Away from here, but at the Ghana Book Fair
• The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives – Lola Shoneyin
• Poem #36: To Wordsworth by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Sunday: Thoughts and Updates
• Delivering Clean Water in Rural Ghana: Blog Action Day 2010
• Poems #34 & #35: The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake
• The 2010 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize: Winner and Finalists
• The Winner of My First Book Giveaway…
• Gimme an M: Cheering for the Read-A-Thon
• Please translate this book into English: Trois Femmes Puissantes
• Poem #33: The Ecchoing Green by William Blake
• Beyond the Horizon – Amma Darko
• My First Book Giveaway
• Reading the Romantics: William Blake, schedule
• Reading List: African Fiction #1
• Oh my! Reading the Romantics
• Poem #32: The Good Morrow by John Donne
• Daughters of Africa edited by Margaret Busby
• The Witches of Gambaga
• True Murder – Yaba Badoe
• Poem #31: Late Love by Jackie Kay
• BBAW: Forgotten Treasures
• Back Online…
• On Completing What’s In A Name? 3 Challenge
• A Round-up of Recent African Award Winners
• On Completing 100 ‘Shots of Short’
• Poem #30: God Abandons Antony by C.P. Cavafy
• August 2010 Summary and Plans for September
• Electric City and Other Stories – Patricia Grace
• One Award but Fifteen New Book Blogs
• Beginnings: Wizard of the Crow
• Book Bloggers Abroad
• Poem #29: Last of his Tribe by Oodgeroo Noonuccal
• God Dies by the Nile – Nawal El Saadawi
• Beatrice and Virgil – Yann Martel
• Poem #28: A City’s Death by Fire – Derek Walcott
• Counselor Ayres’ Memorial – Machado de Assis
• Oh I should get that, or Additions to my Wishlist #5
• The Dwarf – Pär Lagerkvist
• Back at Kinna Reads, and with updates.
• Away for a week or two…
• Poem #27: Mothers by Nikki Giovanni
• Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
• The Purple Violet of Oshaantu – Neshani Andreas
• Poem #26: Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
• 10 Overlooked Books in my TBR Pile
• Six Early Stories by Thomas Mann
• Poem #25: The Wolf’s Postscript to ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ by Agha Shahid Ali
• Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2010
• 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa: The last 4
• I Do Not Come To You By Chance – Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
• 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa: The last 8
• 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa: Second thoughts
• 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa: First thoughts
• Poem #24: Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson
• Catalan Literature in Translation : A Reading List
• Dream Sleepers and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
• Oh I should get that, or Additions to my Wishlist #4
• Imagine This – Sade Adeniran
• I’m heartbroken – Jose Saramago died today
• Poem #23: Brief Lives by Olive Senior
• Tropical Fish by Doreen Baingana
• The Crazed – Ha Jin
• Recent Additions to the Stack
• Poem #22: Yellow Bowl by Rachel Contreni Flynn
• The Wild Geese – Ogai Mori
• For Short Monday: Waiariki and Other Stories by Patricia Grace
• Internet disruptions
• Poem #21: Nothing Twice by Wislawa Szymborska
• The Solitude of Prime Numbers – Paolo Giordano
• Short Monday: Two Stories by Quim Monzò
• Poem #20: Medusa by Patricia Smith
• House of Day, House of Night – Olga Tokarczuk
• Lost in the City – Edward P. Jones
• Sugar – Bernice McFadden
• Poem #19: Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
• April 2010 Wrap-Up and some plans for May
• In which Wolf Hall evokes Richard II
• Poem #18: Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins
• BINGO!!!: 14 types of blog posts
• How to become an expert at Sudoku
• Case Study: The Personal Library (a pictorial)
• On allegiances and switching sides: this is football
• Poem #17: Civilian and Soldier by Wole Soyinka
• In which I divine whether I will love or hate The Solitude of Prime Numbers
• My first interview: Winstonsdad’sblog
• Poem #16: If you forget me by Pablo Neruda
• The Dumas Club – Arturo Pérez-Reverte
• Poem #15: Dedication by Czeslaw Milosz
• African Love Stories, edited by Ama Ata Aidoo
• Poem #14: My First Memory by Nikki Giovanni
• On Call and Response: Poems #12 & #13
• Poem #11: Vacation by Rita Dove
• Oh I should get that, or Additions to my Wishlist #3
• Poem #10: Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint by Federico García Lorca
• Online resources for free short stories
• Book Blogger Hop
• “Departures. They give birth to waiting”
• Poem #9: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
• Poem #8: Between Ourselves by Audre Lorde
• Scent of the Day? or in which I profess my love for perfumes
• The Time of the Doves – Mercè Rodoreda
• Poem#7: Lot’s Wife by Anna Akhmatova
• Poem #6: Harlem by Langston Hughes
• Shortlists for two prizes announced
• Short Mondays: Prefiguration of Lalo Cura by Roberto Bolaño
• A poll on short stories
• Away from home base
• Read-a-thon: 11am (GMT) final update
• Read-a-thon: Hour 23 mini-challenge
• Read-a-thon: 8am (GMT) update
• Read-a-thon Update: 4pm – 7:30pm (GMT)
• Read-A-Thon Update: 12-4pm (GMT)
• April Read-a-thon
• Book Blogger Hop
• Read-A-Thon Plans
• Poem#5: After A Commonwealth Conference by Ama Ata Aidoo
• The Stone Virgins by Yvonne Vera
• Poem #4: I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• What to do? I can’t write the review
• Mummy, read one last time – Fly, Eagle, Fly
• Short Mondays: The Nose – Nicolai Gogol
• Announcement: Octavia Butler Week!
• Happy Easter and Poem #3: Holy Sonnets, VII by John Donne
• Oh I should get that, or Additions to my Wishlist #2
• Plans for April 2010
• Poem #2: Personal Letter No.2 by Sonia Sanchez
• Poem #1: Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith
• In preparation for April: (US) National Poetry Month
• Too Loud A Solitude – Bohumil Hrabal
• The avenues of my life, courtesy of Yvonne Vera
• The Thing Around Your Neck – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Oh I should get that, or Additions to my Wishlist #1
• Margaret Atwood is awarded the Dan David Prize
• War Dances (winner) – 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
• Passing – Nella Larsen
• The Laws of Evening – Mary Yukari Waters
• The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize long-list for 2010
• Around the World in 8 Months: Orbis Terrarum Reading Challenge
• Flashback: Winding-up The Empire
• Flower Children – Maxine Swann
• Joining Challenges
• Seventy Thousand Assyrians – William Saroyan
• Short Stories and A Challenge
• Mummy, read one last time – The Story of Ferdinand
• First Rate Fridays
• The translator, Margaret Jull Costa, and some of her authors
• Death with Interruptions – Jose Saramago