
First Draft - Best of 2021 Michael Kleber-Diggs
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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I've a Tendency to Read the Poems About Institutional Violence
i just want there to be a day where you can just write about all these people getting like, scholarships to college and winning cooking contests and whin tav beasom. In 20 ani heard patricia smith read at the loft literary centre in minneapolis. She read for maybe 15 minutes, and she just read five or six absolutely devastating palls. I have a tendency to read the poems about institutional violence and enclosed with something more wants and michael's a character. But it's also that im in addition to wanting to point at the truth of ugly things, i want to point atthe truth of beautiful things. It's hard for me to imagine that there will ever
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