NEW YORK — A biologist’s debut poetry collection that weaves science with a condemnation of slavery and colonialism has received a $10,000 literary award. Dr. Brandon Kilbourne’s “Natural History” is this year’s winner of the Cave Canem award, given for work by an unpublished Black poet. “A research biologist working at the Berlin Museum of Natural History, Dr. Kilbourne has …
In short: Stephanie Trethewey, who started Australia's first online rural mothers group program, has been named Australian of the Year for Tasmania. Stephanie Trethewey, who started Australia's first online rural mothers group program, has been named Australian of the Year for Tasmania. 'Blown away by the community support' Clair Harris says she when she arrived in Tasmania "I would just …
McBride’s Deacon King Kong won for fiction and Trethewey’s memoir Memorial Drive was a co-winner for nonfiction, along with Vincent Brown’s Tacky’s Revolt. Novelist James McBride, former US poet laureate Natasha Trethewey and science fiction great Samuel R Delaney are among this year’s winners of Anisfield-Wolf awards for books that confront racism and help promote diversity. “The new Anisfield-Wolf winners …
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