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First Draft - Best of 2021 Michael Kleber-Diggs

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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My Ultimate Thought Is This

Part two of Michaelangelo Sotomayor's new book, "The Black Man," is out now. The poems are written directly toward the plight of young black men and those hurt by prison system or police violence. In one poem a friend for his youth said that convicts were 'feerl beasts' - only a beast sees a man as a beast says Sotomayore.

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