Two poets pen memoirs about the relationships that shaped their writing
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Why Fathers Cry at Night
Kwame Alexander's new book is called Why Fathers Cry at Night. He says he was in a "crisis" when he started writing the book. The poems were chronological, then he wrote prose pieces to support them. His mother had passed and his oldest daughter stopped speaking with him.
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