Newsworthy: Poems Memoirs & Biographies ” along with eight fresh

” along with eight fresh essays that revisit each year of the Obama administration through Coates’s own experiences

a master’s degree in business management from Webster University and taught journalism at Central Missouri State University

The Deep is “a tour de force reorientation of the storytelling gaze…a superb

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The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that the townspeople in Sacajawea

Newsworthy: Poems Memoirs & Biographies ” along with eight freshNewsworthy wrestles with living in a culture infected by white supremacy where current media is distrusted, cursory, and impossible to escape. And yet, we yearn to know. We crave a thoughtfulness apart from soundbites and viral videos that plumbs deeper, one that reawakens our shared humanity by reminding us that under headlines beat all of our "pierced hearts." A leading light in the new poetic guard, Deborah D. E. E. P. Mouton's collection is a