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A day without news. Left behind,
last night’s lead story – a friend’s
untimely death, his son surviving
the head-on two miles from home.
This evening, my ne…
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- September 24, 2013Photo by Agence France Presse The World Literature Today executive director, editors, and staff today noted with sadness that on Sept. 21, 2013 Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian poet and statesman, die…
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