Sloane Crosley

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“My life is kind of like a novel in interconnected stories.” Sloane Crosley recounts the different jobs she’s had that have shaped her storytelling for Xerox’s Set the Page Free series. Her third essay collection, Look Alive Out There (MCD, 2018), is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Black Girl Magic

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In this Chicago magazine video, poets Raych Jackson, Natalie Rose Richardson, and Jamila Woods read from their poems which are featured in the new poetry anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Volume 2: Black Girl Magic (Haymarket Books, 2018). LaToya Jordan speaks with Mahogany L. Browne, one of the editors of the anthology, in “At the Center of Hip-Hop and Poetry” in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

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Anthony Ray Hinton

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“Reading really saved my life in a way that people probably will never be able to understand.” Anthony Ray Hinton, author of the memoir, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (St. Martin’s Press, 2018), speaks about starting the only known book club on death row and the power of reading.

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