<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Diary of a Mad Reader</title>
	<atom:link href="http://moyamba.wordpress.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://moyamba.wordpress.com</link>
	<description>poet tichaona chinyelu&#039;s book blog</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:36:59 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.com/</generator>
<cloud domain='moyamba.wordpress.com' port='80' path='/?rsscloud=notify' registerProcedure='' protocol='http-post' />
<image>
		<url>http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/c34a5c030508e509ee58a5d780f97af2?s=96&#038;d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png</url>
		<title>Diary of a Mad Reader</title>
		<link>http://moyamba.wordpress.com</link>
	</image>
	<atom:link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="http://moyamba.wordpress.com/osd.xml" title="Diary of a Mad Reader" />
	<atom:link rel='hub' href='http://moyamba.wordpress.com/?pushpress=hub'/>
		<item>
		<title>The Best American Essays 2011</title>
		<link>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/the-best-american-essays-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/the-best-american-essays-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tichaona Chinyelu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[anthologies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edwidge danticat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The best american essays 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toi derricote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zadie Smith]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://moyamba.wordpress.com/?p=433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I admit it. I bought this book because I like Edwidge Danticat&#8217;s books and was very interested in reading her choices. So far I have read two of the essays in the book: Generation Why? by Zadie Smith and Beds by Toi Derricote. Generation Y was devastating in its critique of the Facebook phenomenon and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moyamba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9048430&amp;post=433&amp;subd=moyamba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/the-best-american-essays-2011/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/16d097b782c48b3591055eb2d6114530?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Moyamba</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Six Years Later &#8211; Joseph Brodsky</title>
		<link>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/six-years-later-joseph-brodsky/</link>
		<comments>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/six-years-later-joseph-brodsky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tichaona Chinyelu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joseph brodsky]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nobel lauretes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[six years later]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://moyamba.wordpress.com/?p=431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So long had life together been that now the second of January fell again on Tuesday, making her astonished brow lift like a windshield wiper in the rain, &#160; so that her misty sadness cleared, and showed &#160; a cloudless distance waiting up the road. So long had life together been that once the snow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moyamba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9048430&amp;post=431&amp;subd=moyamba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/six-years-later-joseph-brodsky/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/16d097b782c48b3591055eb2d6114530?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Moyamba</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Strip &#8211; Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon</title>
		<link>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/strip-lyrae-van-clief-stefanon/</link>
		<comments>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/strip-lyrae-van-clief-stefanon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tichaona Chinyelu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bum rush the page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lyrae van clief-stefanon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strip]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://moyamba.wordpress.com/?p=424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A think brown-haired girl pouts high on stage. She cannot swing her slight body round the new pole. It runs floor to ceiling, piercing the strip club like a shaft of light the way the voice of God appears in movies. Except this pole is plastic and God would gurgle because it&#8217;s full of liquid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moyamba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9048430&amp;post=424&amp;subd=moyamba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/strip-lyrae-van-clief-stefanon/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/16d097b782c48b3591055eb2d6114530?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Moyamba</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Sea is History &#8211; Derek Walcott</title>
		<link>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/the-sea-is-history-derek-walcott/</link>
		<comments>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/the-sea-is-history-derek-walcott/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tichaona Chinyelu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[caribbean poets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[derek walcott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the sea is history]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://moyamba.wordpress.com/?p=420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs, in that gray vault. The sea. The sea has locked them up. The sea is History. First, there was the heaving oil, heavy as chaos; then, likea light at the end of a tunnel, the lantern of a caravel, and that was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moyamba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9048430&amp;post=420&amp;subd=moyamba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/the-sea-is-history-derek-walcott/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/16d097b782c48b3591055eb2d6114530?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Moyamba</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Necessary Song &#8211; Vicente Feliu</title>
		<link>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/a-necessary-song-vicente-feliu/</link>
		<comments>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/a-necessary-song-vicente-feliu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tichaona Chinyelu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[che guevara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[che in verse]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://moyamba.wordpress.com/?p=409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(To Che, not in memoriam) Your skin linked to the bone was lost in the earth. The tear, the poem and the memory are carving on the fire the song of death with golden machine-guns from wherever you are. And here, each night your books are searched for the just motive of all action and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moyamba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9048430&amp;post=409&amp;subd=moyamba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/a-necessary-song-vicente-feliu/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/16d097b782c48b3591055eb2d6114530?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Moyamba</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Africa Reading Challenge</title>
		<link>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/africa-reading-challenge/</link>
		<comments>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/africa-reading-challenge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tichaona Chinyelu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[african literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[africa reading challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ayi kwei armah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flora nwapa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funmilayo ransome-kuti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kinna reads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wives of the leopard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wole soyinka]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://moyamba.wordpress.com/?p=406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kinna Reads is hosting a year-long Africa Reading Challenge. The goal of the Challenge is to read 5 books.&#160; That’s it.&#160; There will be no other levels.&#160; Of course, participants are encouraged to read more than 5 books.&#160; Eligible books include those which are written by African writers, or take place in Africa, or are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moyamba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9048430&amp;post=406&amp;subd=moyamba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/africa-reading-challenge/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/16d097b782c48b3591055eb2d6114530?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Moyamba</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Breast Examination ~ Wanda Coleman</title>
		<link>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/breast-examination-wanda-coleman/</link>
		<comments>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/breast-examination-wanda-coleman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tichaona Chinyelu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[african sleeping sickness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breast examination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wanda coleman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://moyamba.wordpress.com/?p=404</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1. in the shower naked he bends to suck milk life urge engulfs we tumble into stream barely able to separate closed in by the enamel fist 2. before the mirror he comes up as i look at myself cups them and squeezes they jump up hard nipples in dance-ritual he’s to my back enters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moyamba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9048430&amp;post=404&amp;subd=moyamba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/breast-examination-wanda-coleman/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/16d097b782c48b3591055eb2d6114530?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Moyamba</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Thanks &#8211; Yusef Komunyakaa</title>
		<link>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/thanks-yusef-komunyakaa/</link>
		<comments>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/thanks-yusef-komunyakaa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tichaona Chinyelu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://moyamba.wordpress.com/?p=397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the tree between me &#38; a sniper&#8217;s bullet. I don&#8217;t know what made the grass sway seconds before the Viet Cong raises his soundless rifle. Some voice always followed, telling me which foot to put down first. Thanks for deflecting the ricochet against that anarchy of dusk. I was back in San Francisco [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moyamba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9048430&amp;post=397&amp;subd=moyamba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/thanks-yusef-komunyakaa/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/16d097b782c48b3591055eb2d6114530?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Moyamba</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Motherhood, 1951 &#8211; Ai</title>
		<link>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/motherhood-1951-ai/</link>
		<comments>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/motherhood-1951-ai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tichaona Chinyelu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ai poet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motherhood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pregnancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saint Patrick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Snake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virgin Mary]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://moyamba.wordpress.com/?p=394</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Saint Patrick, this is Peggy, Or maybe it&#8217;s Pegeen to you, Well, I&#8217;m really Stella Mae. Peggy&#8217;s my nickname, But anyway, will you please tell me What to do about the rattlesnake That&#8217;s in my room? I know it&#8217;s there, But I can&#8217;t find it anywhere I search. I&#8217;ve ransacked the closet more than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moyamba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9048430&amp;post=394&amp;subd=moyamba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/motherhood-1951-ai/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/16d097b782c48b3591055eb2d6114530?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Moyamba</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
		<item>
		<title>Derek Walcott&#8217;s Nobel Speech (excerpt)</title>
		<link>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/derek-walcotts-nobel-speech-excerpt/</link>
		<comments>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/derek-walcotts-nobel-speech-excerpt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tichaona Chinyelu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[derek walcott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature laureate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nobel lectures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nobel Prize]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://moyamba.wordpress.com/?p=390</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Deprived of their original language, the captured and indentured tribes create their own, accreting and secreting fragments of an old, an epic vocabulary, from Asia and from Africa, but to an ancestral, an ecstatic rhythm in the blood that cannot be subdued by slavery or indenture, while nouns are renamed and the given names of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=moyamba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9048430&amp;post=390&amp;subd=moyamba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://moyamba.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/derek-walcotts-nobel-speech-excerpt/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
		<media:content url="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/16d097b782c48b3591055eb2d6114530?s=96&#38;d=identicon&#38;r=PG" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Moyamba</media:title>
		</media:content>
	</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
