Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Toi Derricotte

Born: April 12, 1941 (age 83)
Bio: Toi Derricotte is an American poet and a professor of writing at University of Pittsburgh. She won a 2012 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. With Cornelius Eady, she co-founded Cave Canem Foundation, a summer workshop for African-American poets.
Known for:
- The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey (1997)
- The Undertaker’s Daughter (2011)
- Natural birth (1983)
- Captivity (1989)