American history

Track

Pico, Tommy. Feed. Portland, OR: Tin House Books, 2019, pp. 7-10, 18, 10-15, 25-27, 19.

Track

Parker, Morgan. Magical Negro. Portland, OR: Tin House Books, 2019.

Reading

Ocean Vuong reads poems from Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016). This reading was originally given with Camille Rankine.

Reading

Tyehimba Jess reads historical persona poems from leadbelly (2005) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning Olio (2016), including the full sonnet sequence about the McKoy twins from Olio. He also discusses the research behind Olio and the complex forms he uses throughout the collection, particularly his syncopated sonnets.

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