1.) What are you reading on the subway or in the waiting room today?
Khadijah Queen’s Fearful Beloved, out now from Argos Books.
2.) What book popped for you in 2015?
Wendy Ortiz’s memoir, Excavation.
3.) Whose words do you return to regularly?
4.) Is there an author you can’t wait to read next?
I’m soooooooooooo excited for Ocean Voung’s book, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, to come out.
5.) What are you working on now? What can VIDA fans look forward to from you next?
I’m editing my second book of poetry, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce. It will be out in 2017 with Tin House!
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MORGAN PARKER is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015), selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize, and There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce, forthcoming from Tin House Books in 2017. Morgan is Cave Canem graduate fellow, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and poetry editor for The Offing. She also co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico, and with Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective.