Summer/Fall 2026 Website Features

Poetry Edition

Community Tributes to Claudia Whittingham
By African Voices
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In honor of the beloved Claudia Whittingham, watch tributes from her family and friends from a special memorial held on May 2, 2025 and then read a personal tribute from Sandrine Dupiton.
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Love and Resilience Response – Yesenia Montilla
By African Voices
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I don’t think Love and Resilience are the same. But they inform one another. Love makes resilience possible and resilience is how we survive these times. The more we love, (whether it be other humans, trees…
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Love and Resilience Response – Kim D. Brandon
By African Voices
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These are challenging times. It feels like we are at war within our own country. The emotional fatigue feels never-ending. It’s times like these when I look to poetry to help me get reconnected to a sense of love for self, for family, for community, for the world…
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Interview with Chip Williford
By African Voices
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SUFFOLK COUNTY NY’S FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN POET LAUREATE We wanted to meet face-to-face, but the weather report for the day we scheduled was predicting rain. That past week Mother Nature couldn’t decide whether to tease us with a day of sunshine or become Fall in redux…
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