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May 24, 2013 Kinna

21 Days/21 Poems: ‘won’t you celebrate with me’ by Lucille Clifton

April 23, 2013April 24, 2013 Kinna

21 Days/21 Poems: “I Don’t Miss It” by Tracy K. Smith

April 23, 2013June 2, 2013 Kinna

Save the Date: Yari Yari Ntoaso, May 16-19 2013, Accra, Ghana

April 19, 2013April 21, 2013 Kinna

21 Days/21 Poems: “I have been a stranger in a strange land” by Rita Dove

March 21, 2013March 21, 2013 Kinna

Losing a Language by W.S. Merwin

April 19, 2012June 15, 2013 Kinna

“blessing the boats” by Lucille Clifton

April 18, 2012 Kinna

“Grown Up” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

January 16, 2012June 15, 2013 Kinna

7 Days of Shorts

January 1, 2012January 1, 2012 Kinna

“To the New Year” by W. S. Merwin

October 22, 2011 Kinna

“To Any Reader” – Robert Louis Stevenson

October 22, 2011June 15, 2013 Kinna

“There is no Frigate like a Book” – Emily Dickinson

October 10, 2011October 11, 2011 Kinna

“This Is All The Orientation You Are Gonna Get” by John Jodzio

August 28, 2011August 28, 2011 Kinna

“Should we have stayed at home and thought of here?”

August 26, 2011June 2, 2013 Kinna

“I lost my mother’s watch”

August 6, 2011June 2, 2013 Kinna

“The secret is out: we are men!” – James Baldwin writes to Angela Y. Davis

May 4, 2011 Kinna

21 Days/21 Poems: Some Part of the Lyric by Gregory Orr

April 23, 2011April 22, 2011 Kinna

21 Days/21 Poems: If We Must Die by Claude McKay

April 22, 2011May 5, 2011 Kinna

21 Days/21 Poems: This Was Once a Love Poem by Jane Hirshfield

April 19, 2011April 29, 2011 Kinna

21 Days/21 Poems: Purple Bathing Suit by Louise Glück

April 18, 2011April 19, 2011 Kinna

Short Monday: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

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Kinna

Lifelong reader. I read mostly fiction. I enjoy world literature. I’m partial to women writers, especially African women writers. Here, you'll find commentary on novels, short stories and poems. In Accra, Ghana. Contact me at kinnareads at gmail dot com. Host of Africa Reading Challenge.

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