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Morgan Parker is the author
of There Are More Beautiful

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Things Than Beyonce, and
Other People's Comfort Keeps

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Me Up At Night, and
about 10 other books

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that are coming out very soon.

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I am kidding.

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But she's definitely prolific.

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And she has-- in 2019, her
third collection of poems

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is titled Magical Negro, which
will be published by Tin House.

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And she also has
a YA novel, which

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will be published by
Delacorte Press very soon.

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And she also has a debut
book of nonfiction,

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which will be released
in 2020 by One World.

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So she is--

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Get it all in 2021.

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Yeah.

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So she is very busy.

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And then a line from
one of her books

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is, "You are beautiful
because you're funny.

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You're alive because
you're a question."

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On the page and in
person, Tommy and Morgan

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really matter to
poetry because they

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expand the boundaries
of what it means

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to speak about identity
through their poetry.

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They are fearless, and
they exalt language

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in a way that makes me
think about the future,

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it makes me think
about now, and it also

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makes me think about
what is possible.

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