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Love Poems For Valentine's Day: Guaranteed To Throw Sparks Or Your Money Back.

Submitted by David Cherry on Sun, 02/07/2010 - 6:38pm

Photo Credit: aliança by Rodrigo Gianesi For some people Valentine's Day is easy. They sow Necco Sweethearts like grass seed, believing each little saying imprinted on each little pastel-tinted heart to be meaningful if not oracular. Then there are the conspiracy theorists who claim to have documented proof that the Truffle Makers' Guild and the equally nefarious Greeting Card Poets' Bund are behind the whole charade.

And then there are the rest of us, swinging between hope and despair.

Poetry for Black History Month

Submitted by David Cherry on Fri, 01/29/2010 - 8:54pm

In Spike Lee's film X, there is a scene adapted from The Autobiography of Malcolm X in which the young p Cover Art: Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep / edited by Michael Walton and Anthony Walton rotagonist, newly imprisoned, suffering cocaine-withdrawal and still wearing the name Malcolm Little, is urged by an older prisoner to look up the word "black" in a dictionary.