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From the magazine:How did you learn to speak English?
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Rakim / OutKast / “talking heads” & Big Tech / B.I.G. &
Big Daddy Kane / i tried to exorcise Black pain w/ tragi-
comic irony / & some nights / the poltergeists...
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Brittany and Ajanae interviewed Jada Renée Allen on their rabbit holes of research, “Drill” the manuscript and the music, the relationship between Black women and water, and the influences on our poetics.
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Maybe I was the only friend who would talk to you about him.
You would call me in the afternoons from…
You would call me in the afternoons from…
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CM Burroughs
CM Burroughs is associate professor of poetry at Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of the collections The Vital System (Tupelo Press, 2012) and Master Suffering (Tupelo Press, 2020.) Burroughs has been awarded fellowships and grants from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Cave Canem. She has received commissions from the Studio Museum of Harlem and the Warhol Museum to create poetry...
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