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Articles in March-April, 2005 issue of Black Issues Book Review

• Flying off the shelves
• A relentless fan
  by Relentless Aaron
• Doormat
  by Desiree Harrison
• Star poets and poet stars: the rise of the celebrity bard goes to the heart of what role verse plays in our lives
  by Samantha Thornhill
• Taboo: the Wishbone Trilogy, Part One
  by Patricia Spears Jones
• All eyes on "eyes"; Oprah's adaptation of Zora's classic novel, starring Halle as Janie, is a historical moment for the worlds of television and literature
  by Sharon D. Johnson
• The Untelling
  by Nicole Shaw
• Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power
  by Todd Steven Burroughs
• Correction
• Orphea Proud
  by Nancey Flowers
• A soulful place for poetry: the poet laureate of Connecticut gives form to a dream: a quite place and paid residencies for aspiring writers
  by Samantha Thornhill
• After a season: the book credited with igniting the urban genre, Sister Souljah's The Coldest Winter Ever, is back in a collector's edition
  by Arin M. Lawrence
• High-tech heaven: gadgets take Bibles to a new plane
  by Robert S. Anthony
• Love and tenderness: sweet poetry for the child in all of us
  by Suzanne Rust
• Susan Taylor's Inspiration
  by E. Rashun Williams
• The Coretta Scott King Book Awards 2004
• In the key of life/a review
  by Samantha Thornhill
• Bridges yet to cross
  by Bill Clinton
• Even As Your Soul Prospers: Realize Your Purpose Release Your Blessings
  by Kevin Wayne Johnson
• Many thanks
  by Lee McDonald
• Don't tell anyone it's fun: Georgia children discover the joy of reading and building thinking skills
  by Pat Houser
• Full Moon of Sonia
  by Roger Bonair-Agard
• "Urban thunder" tears black communities asunder; displacement and development whittle away at the collective psyche
  by Daphne Muse
• Betrayal of the Trust
  by Alissa R. Terrel
• A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership
  by Robert Fleming
• The lord's songs in a strange land; two histories dig down to the roots of gospel music and the culture of sound in African American life
  by Angela P. Dodson
• The Golden Hour
  by Brittiany McCree
• South Carolina: the poetry state: a professor teams with a newspaper to help bring lone voices and their work out into the open
  by Camille Dungy
• How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love
  by Treasure Williams
• Zoraphile: all about one of black literature's most storied authors
  by Earni Young
• Breaking out: in fiction and nonfiction, new books are ending the silence on life in prison, as well as societal policies and personal behaviors that put people there
  by Patrice Gaines
• Word! The Good Book finds new niches: specialty editions of the bible for African Americans and youth are reaping rewards for publishers
  by Carrie Mason-Draffen
• Barbara Chase-Riboud, visionary woman: in words and art the renowned author and sculptor breathes life into the history of the forgotten female
  by Monique Y. Wells
• Grateful for Hymnals
  by John Arthur Nunes
• Noteworthy title
• The Maverick Room
  by Gregory Pardlo
• My Jim
  by Regina Cash-Clark
• Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class
  by Shatema Threadcraft
• Healed Without Scars
  by Gilda R. Daniels
• A whole new meaning for the verb "to Google®"
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Image maker in the fine arts: with a deliberate aesthetic and a cutting-edge commitment, Delano Greenidge has established a reputation for publishing high-quality visual books
  by Rhonda Stewart
• Wrestling with the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press
  by Wendy S. Walters
• Black Maria
  by Howard Rambsy, II
• Other noteworthy titles
• And now what? A young writer struggles to write the next great novel, while her first is all the buzz of the publishing world
  by Kalisha Buckhanon
• Putting a good face on it
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Signings & sightings
• The power of the print
  by Michael Days
• Complete Poems: Claude McKay
  by Gregory Pardlo
• Bullets to ballots: looking back at Selma, building bridges to a democratic future
  by Tavis Smiley
• Babylon Sisters
  by Melissa Ewey Johnson
• The Boundaries of Her Body: The Troubling History of Women's Rights in America
  by Angela Ards
• Thinking With the Heart: Principle, Practice and Purpose for Spiritual Wellness
  by Nicole Lee
• Poetry for all times
  by William F. Cox
• Deals
  by Angela D. Dodson
• American Smooth
  by Kevin Simmonds
• NEA awards four brothers in verse
  by Quraysh Ali Lansana
• The Professor's Daughter
  by Denolyn Carroll
• Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws That Changed America
  by Lee A. Daniels
• The Voice of My Boundaries: Life-Changing Exercises Your Other Coaches Didn't Tell You About!
  by Kathryn V. Stanley
• On the way up: two emerging authors succeed in the fast-paced world of literary entrepreneurship
  by Victoria Christopher Murray
• A death in custody: Homeland Security officials investigate treatment of novelist Edwidge Danticat's late uncle, who died seeking asylum
  by Leslie Casimir
• The herstory of Black art
  by Jeanne Fox-Alston
• Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present
  by Jacqueline Jones Lamon
• The power and grace of a boxing champ; with lightening speed and an impressive style, Sugar Ray Robinson was considered to be the best ever to step into the ring
  by Herb Boyd
• Dying in the Dark: A Tamara Hayle Mystery
  by Mary Olouyne
• Looking for Mr. Gilbert: The Reimagined Life of an African American
  by Eric Addison
• Entrepreneurial Faith: Launching Bold Initiatives to Expand God's Kingdom
  by Kevin Wayne Johnson