Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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)