Ten Questions for Vievee Francis

“I have to fight for every word, then fight to let them go.” —Vievee Francis, author of The Shared World
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“I have to fight for every word, then fight to let them go.” —Vievee Francis, author of The Shared World
“I like taking risks.” —Joy Castro, author of One Brilliant Flame
“In the mornings—or when I roll over from a dream—there’s only God and me talking to each other.” —Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois
“You have to become the person who can write the book you’re working on.” —Zeyn Joukhadar, author of The Thirty Names of Night
“Don’t ever find your voice.” —Khaled Mattawa, author of Fugitive Atlas
The author of What Can I Tell You?: Selected Poems examines poetic approaches to narrative.
“There’s space for your story.” —E. M. Tran, author of Daughters of the New Year
This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Mariana Oliver and Julia Sanches, the author and the translator of Migratory Birds.
In his first nonfiction book, How the Word Is Passed, published in June by Little, Brown, poet and scholar Clint Smith delves into the legacy of slavery alive in the monuments and landmarks within and beyond the United States, in an immersive read that exquisitely depicts how a nation and its inhabitants remember its history.
The author of I Know You Know Who I Am recalls his first attempt at writing a braided narrative.