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Angel - Joelle Taylor
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes
B. 1974
“If my heart is broken, I should be thankful that I was blessed to have loved but I cannot live that wisely. That’s why I cry ”
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Rachel Long
B. 1988
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. -Toni Morrison ”
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by Janice Whyne
The Mighty Dead
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
Read by Ian McKellen
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love - Christopher Marlowe - Read by Ian McKellen
The Mighty Dead
A Birthday
Read by James Earl Jones
A Birthday - Christina Rossetti - Read by James Earl Jones
The Mighty Dead
She Walks in Beauty
Read by Jude Law
by Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron - Read by Jude Law
The Mighty Dead
To My Dear and Living Husband
Read by Helen Mirren
To My Dear and Living Husband - Anne Bradstreet - Read by Helen Mirren
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Chris Wallace-Crabbe
B. 1934
All the choir of stars and panoply of heaven / Gaze down on our pygmy web. - from The Universe Looks Down, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
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Julia Copus
B. 1969
Some of the most turbulent moments in life through a sharp, clear lens. Maura Dooley