What’s the earliest experience, or a stand-out experience, you can remember that made you realize that you can be yourself, write as yourself, and write...
Archive for tag: white privilege
Voices of Bettering American Poetry Volume 2 — Jericho Brown
What have you been reading, watching, or listening to lately? I’ve been falling in love with this poem all over again and the ways that...
Report from the Field: Four Moments In the Life of a Brown Female Writer
One: I’m at a competitive and well-respected writing conference in the west and have become friends with a talented black woman writer. Wherever we go,...
“I’m nothing, if not”: An Anecdote of a Jar
To discuss my own entry into writing and publishing, I must admit a contrary relationship to publication, one probably not unique to myself. I feel...
Report From the Field: White People Love Me: Dispatches From The Token
I get along with white people really well. Growing up, they brought peppermint bark down the cul-de-sac to my parents’ house every Christmas. They smiled...