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BROOKLYN POETS
Poet of the Week: Poem Reading and Q&A 

March 24–30, 2025

INTERVIEW 
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Q&A with Nikki Grimes, winner of the Coretta Scott King Award
January 2021
 (Publishers Weekly
)

The Desire To Be: Talking With Garrard Conley And Taylor Larsen (The Rumpus)

Mother Language: A Q&A With Tina Chang (Poets & Writers) 

For National Poetry Month: Q&A on Burmese Poetry anthology Bones Will Crow
​with James Byrne (LA Review of Books) 

​ESSAY

The Feminine and the Figure of the African-American in Plath
(The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath, 2022)

Conspicuous Erudition: The New Black Poetry (The Yale Review, 2020)

White's Knights: Edmund White's Jack Holmes and His Friend 
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Crashing Cathedrals: Edmund White by the Book, Itna Press (April 2019)

On Autumn and New Beginnings (Kenyon Review)

Black and Blue: Considering Thematic Parameters 

What Makes a Poem Gay? 

Robed in the Long Friends: The Haunting of Hart Crane's "Quaker Hill"


FILM

Django Unchained and the Fate of Your Soul (jdbrecords)

"Who Goes There?" The Power of Paranoia in Horror Film (jdbrecords) 


MUSIC

The Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together": An Appreciation (jdbrecords)
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