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Articles in March-April, 2006 issue of Black Issues Book Review

• Pink
  by Jacqueline Leslie
• Cycle of Life: August Wilson: playwright April 27, 1945-October 2, 2005
  by Woodie King, Jr.
• Mozart and Leadbelly: Stories and Essays
  by Rick Blalock
• Comic relief
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Zaatar Diva
  by Matthew Shenoda
• Back in the game: Gulf Coast booksellers find ways to press on
  by Gwendolyn E. Osborne
• A Long Movie of Shadows
  by Randall Horton
• American Sublime
  by Gregory Pardlo
• The Other Side of the Game
• I'm Every Woman: A Black Woman Remixes Stories of Marriage, Motherhood, and Work
  by Susan McHenry
• Script for success: Michael Ajakwe's Pipedream press publishes works by him and other playwrights
  by Pamela K. Johnson
• Knockin' Boots
• The New Basic Black: Home Training for Modern Times
  by Kalyn Johnson
• Third Girl film deal
  by Angela P. Dodson
• The Wave
  by Bernadette Adams Davis
• The in-box: noteworthy titles on our Web site
• Rhythm and rhyme: a few selections to help youngsters celebrate poetry month
  by Suzanne Rust
• The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems
• Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America
  by Jonathan Luckett
• Large and in charge: "historic article"
  by Tony Rose
• Native Guard
  by Kelly Norman Ellis
• Channeling Shakespeare: Prospero's daughter turns a classic plot inside out to examine questions about colonization, race and rape
  by Elizabeth Nunez
• YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet's Life: A Memoir
  by Herb Boyd
• Prospero's Daughter
  by Marjorie Valbrun
• Power and poetry
  by William E. Cox
• Off the page: S. Epatha Merkerson goes from buying books for her own pleasure to buying rights to film Leaving Cecil Street
  by Sharon D. Johnson
• Singular notes: self-published writers share the limelight
  by Quraysh Ali Lansana
• The well of creativity
  by Angela P. Dodson
• Eye of Water
• In other voices: the millennial poets and personae
  by Camille Dungy
• So You Call Yourself a Man
  by Glenn Townes
• A Killing in This Town
  by Denise M. Doig
• The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
• Candy Licker
• Dancing in the Dark
  by Denolyn Carroll