{"id":423,"date":"2008-10-10T03:28:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T00:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/archives\/423"},"modified":"2012-05-05T15:49:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T12:49:23","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/archives\/423","title":{"rendered":"And Now for Something Completely Different II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my recent trip to London, I had the great fortune of spending some time with a few admired and celebrated poets from Africa who were on tour in the UK with the Poets in Translation group which has recently funded the translation of their work into English. Here are two of my favorite portraits:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/asaddiq_alraddi_anne_holmes_2008.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-424 aligncenter\" title=\"asaddiq_alraddi_anne_holmes_2008.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/asaddiq_alraddi_anne_holmes_2008.jpg\" alt=\"asaddiq_alraddi_anne_holmes_2008.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asaddiq Alraddi of Sudan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"corsino_fortes_anne_holmes_2008.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/corsino_fortes_anne_holmes_2008.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/corsino_fortes_anne_holmes_2008.jpg\" alt=\"corsino_fortes_anne_holmes_2008.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Corsino Fortes of Capo Verde<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-flattr-button\"><a class=\"FlattrButton\" style=\"display:none;\" href=\"https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/archives\/423\" title=\" And Now for Something Completely Different II\" rev=\"flattr;uid:VigilanteJournalist;language:en_GB;category:text;tags:news around world,the war in middle east,war and conflict,blog;button:compact;\">On my recent trip to London, I had the great fortune of spending some time with a few admired and celebrated poets from Africa who were on tour in the...<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my recent trip to London, I had the great fortune of spending some time with a few admired and celebrated poets from Africa who were on tour in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[28,5,86],"tags":[190,189,187],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.2 - 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