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Pass the Mic: New Directions in Poetics

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In this event hosted by Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, poets and professors Erica Hunt, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, Matthew Shenoda, and Mary-Kim Arnold share their work and discuss their creative processes in a conversation moderated by Lisa Biggs.

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Writing for a Broken World

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“I didn’t understand that I had to be ruthless. I didn’t understand that my job as a writer wasn’t to coddle my characters and create these fairy tales for them to live.” At Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Jesmyn Ward and Edwidge Danticat discuss writing about their homes and the power of place.

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