In this video, chaun webster reads his essay “This Occupation Is Strange but Familiar” for the Minnesota Writers Respond event presented in partnership with the Loft Literary Center and Milkweed Books. webster’s book Without Terminus (Graywolf Press, 2026) is featured in Page One in the July/August 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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