by Dolf HermannstädterTrust Magazine A book with more than 250 songs of agitprop lyrics from the singer und co-founder of…
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Urusla K. Le Guin’s Late in the Day Asks You to Put Down the Smartphone
by Lizzy AckerWillamette WeekJanuary 15th Never before has a book so perfectly coincided with the circumstances of reading it than…
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here in the Huffington Post
by Deborah StamblerThe Huffington PostSeptember 24, 2012 As painful as it is to watch the news of the Middle East…
Baghdad’s ‘Street of the Booksellers’ is reborn in Manchester
By Martin WainwrightThe Northerner BlogMarch 5th, 2013 John Rylands Library plays host to tributes from artists and writers to al-Mutanabbi…
Derrick Weston Brown’s Wisdom Teeth
By Alan Kingalanwking.wordpress.comApril 21, 2011 Derrick Weston Brown holds an MFA in creative writing from American University. He is a…
Wisdom Teeth on Split this Rock
By Katie O’HareSplit this RockJuly 15, 2011 After reading Derrick Weston Brown’s Wisdom Teeth, it’s hard to believe this is…
Averse to Illiteracy: Poets Come Out Against DC’s Ailing Public School Libraries
By Alan Kingalanwking.wordpress.comAugust 7th, 2011 Walking past DC’s Watts Park in Northeast, the people stopped in their tracks when they…
HoCoPoLitSo’s writer-in-residence Derrick Weston Brown seeks to inspire the poet within us all
by L’Oreal ThompsonThe Baltimore SunMarch 20th, 2013 “Attention, attention … the mic is now open.” It is only fitting that…
Read Derrick Weston Brown’s Devastating Poetic Response to Charleston
By Sameer RaoColorlinesJune 19th, 2015 Sometimes, in the immediate aftermath of a brutal tragedy like Wednesday’s massacre of nine black…
Teaching for Change Interview with Derrick Weston Brown
By Don AllenApril 5, 2011 Teaching for Change staff member Derrick Weston Brown has just released his first book of…