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The Booker Prize winner and National Book Award nominee of the poetry and politics of two writers whose work inspired their ...

New Orleans slam poet, singer, rapper Tarriona “Tank” Ball is ready to bring her art, and her band, the Bangas, to Omaha next week.

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In the Book Pages this week, we’re in that odd in-between time when year-end book lists bump up against year-ahead ones.