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  Please make me pretty I don't...

  Tawanda Mulalu

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  The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetry 
   
   
   
  Please make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor. 
   
   
   
  The speaker of these poems probes romantic and interracial intimacy, the strangeness and difficulty of his experiences as a diasporic Black African in White America, his time working as a teacher's assistant in a third-grade classroom, and his ambivalent admiration for canonical poets who have influenced him, especially Sylvia Plath. Juxtaposing traditional forms such as sonnets and elegies with less orthodox interjections, such as prose-poem "prayers" and other meditations, the collection presents a poetic world both familiar and jarring—one in which history, the body, and poetry can collide in a single surprising turn of image: "The stars also suffer. Immense and dead, their gasses burn / distant like castanets of antebellum teeth. My open window / a synecdoche of country."

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  Bé Carna

  Deirdre Kinahan

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  Five women reflect on their lives as prostitutes on the streets of Dublin.
  Deirdre Kinahan's short play Bé Carna: Women of the Flesh is a dark tale inspired by true-life stories, reverberating with humanity, warmth and comic humour.
  It was first staged by Tall Tales theatre company at Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin, in 1999.

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  Sharma Saga

  Horace G

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  Aditi Sharma, a young prodigy from Delhi, lives a life defined by her brilliance and passion for innovation. Known for her groundbreaking projects in artificial intelligence and low-cost technology, she dreams of creating tools to better humanity. But her extraordinary talents have made her a target for dangerous forces. Aditi's innovations attract shadowy figures from both India and abroad, including a ruthless cartel. 
  Unbeknownst to her, a network of operatives begins surveilling her every move. Narrowly escaping through her quick thinking and the chaos of Delhi’s crowded streets, she is thrust into a world of danger where she must use her intellect and determination to survive. 
  As shadowy figures close in and her family’s safety hangs in the balance, Aditi must navigate a treacherous web of deceit, greed, and power. Her brilliance, once a beacon of hope, has become a dangerous liability. But amidst the threats and betrayals, Aditi clings to the possibility of escape and the hope that her genius might one day free her from her captors—and change the world on her own terms.

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  BLUFF - Poems

  Danez Smith

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  Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd, Bluff is Danez Smith's powerful reckoning with their role and responsibility as a poet and with their hometown of the Twin Cities. This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, and critical pessimism to wonder and imagine how we can strive toward a new existence in a world that seems to be dissolving into desolate futures. 
   
   
   
  Smith brings a startling urgency to these poems, their questions demanding a new language and a deep self-scrutiny. A series of ars poetica gives way to "anti poetica" and "ars america" to implicate poetry's collusions with unchecked capitalism. A poem makes clear the consequences of America's acceptance of mass shootings. Another offers the history of Saint Paul's vibrant Rondo neighborhood before and after officials decided to run an interstate directly through it. 
   
   
   
  Bluff is a kind of manifesto about artistic resilience, even when time and will can seem fleeting, when the places we most love—those given and made—are burning. In this soaring collection, Smith turns to honesty, hope, rage, and imagination to envision futures that seem possible.

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  Psychonatural

  Kaleb Willow William Patrick Rolph

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  The year is 1912. Beginning at the halfway point of a journey from London to Brighton, the protagonist Cleric Celait has been contracted through the help of his friend Thomas to work as a stenographer. Cleric slowly comes into his own, finally writing again. He is inspired by a new love and lulled into security by his new home. Yet, he is slowly being manipulated into staying at Dalmra Manor, orchestrated by those now closest to him, he begins to lose his grip on reality, having only his journal to chronicle his strange isolation.

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  Franklinland

  Lloyd Suh

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  This modern, comic take on the American Revolution puts the spotlight on the relationship between the brilliant and domineering Ben Franklin and his son William. As Ben plants the seeds of a new republic, King George III appoints William as Royal Governor of New Jersey - a change in affairs that creates a revolutionary family rift. 
   
  Includes a conversation with playwright Lloyd Suh. 
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in November 2021. 
   
  Franklinland is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world. 
   
  Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording starring: 
  Gregory Harrison as Benjamin Franklin 
  Larry Powell as William Franklin 
  Kurt Kanazawa as William Temple Franklin 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Prepared for audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood 
  Recording Engineer, Editor and Mixer: Charles Carroll. 
  Sound Design: Charles Carroll and Austin Haltermann 
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin 
  Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

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