
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers: “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois” (Part 2)
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Writing a Novel
I was trained as a poet and my m efa is, you know, concentration was poetry. But even with having an mfa, there were certain things that were not focussed on. We didn't get a lot about a pro and poetics. I'd to learn those things on my own. When i started writing this novel, i didn’t know what i was doing,. but i read a piece in poets and writers by a guy, ah, he was a white guy, and he said something that had struck me a short story is a psalm. A novel is a symphony. You write essentially two novels that are presented in juxta
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