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The Word for 2019

Some people have a ritual of choosing a word to focus on for the year. This has not been my ritual, but in my mind, in my reading, as I write down my goals and desires, one word appears repeatedly: transformation. I spent about an hour or so this evening trying to...

The Role of the [Unknown] Artist

Education, Gender, Pop Culture, Race, Social Justice, The Writing Life, Tyranny

Posted Jan 1, 2018, 10:03 P.M. On December 7, 2017, I went to see Ntozake Shange in conversation with Yolanda Wisher, Philadelphia’s current Poet Laureate, at the Free Library of Philadelphia. At about the 22 minute mark, Wisher asks Shange, “What do you think...

The Word for 2019

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