Gapers Block published from April 22, 2003 to Jan. 1, 2016. The site will remain up in archive form. Please visit Third Coast Review, a new site by several GB alumni.
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Thursday, March 30
Carolyn M. Rodgers, poet and founder of Chicago-based Third World Press, America's oldest and largest African American-owned book publisher, has passed away at the age of 69.