Ocean Stirrings: A Work of Fiction in Tribute to Louise Langdon Norton Little, Working Mother and Activist, Mother of Malcolm X and Seven Siblings Akl Awit

Ocean Stirrings: A Work of Fiction in Tribute to Louise Langdon Norton Little, Working Mother and Activist, Mother of Malcolm X and Seven Siblings Akl AwitThe mother of the revolutionary firebrand Malcolm X was a Grenadian woman born at the turn of the 20th century in a small rural community in a deeply colonial society where access to education had only just begun for the children of working people. She emigrated to Canada and then the USA, where she became involved in the struggle for Black civil rights led by Marcus Garvey. Within the sparse facts of Louise Langdon Norton Littles biography, Merle

Cures is filled with strange characters: volcanic women

star-gazers

The poems explore time and space

He could use a break

Banipal 44 is a feast of fiction for summer 2012

King James gives Shakespeare his first secure position

could put one of the most dangerous criminals in the country behind bars

An alumnus of Barbican Young Poets

overtly feminist and somewhat neurotic young woman

as another spring dawns

11-page feature on novelist Habib Selmi

Samuel Shimon: Royal Silver excerpt from novel