He didn’t know what a sonnet was. Now he’s won a major poetry prize.

Ajibola Tolase has been awarded the Cave Canem Prize, putting him in a storied literary lineage
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Do take a look, it's a very nice story! (And the would-be Latinist in me finds the name of the prize highly amusing)

From the Ends to the Beginning: A Bilingual Anthology of Russian Verse, and here's the alphabetical list of poets


People aren't meant to talk this much, from The Atlantic, about social media in general and FB in particular

Talmudic curses and insults, from MJL (some creative ones there ;)