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Angele Ellis: “no margin on these pages of skin history”

In Every Hard Sweetness, Sheila Carter-Jones weaves a personal and cultural history of racism into poetry. 

May 25, 2024 · 3 Comments

Thomas Sayers Ellis: All Their Stanzas Look Alike

All their Selected Collecteds
All their Oxford Nortons
All their Academy Societies
All their Oprah Vendlers
All their stanzas look alike

October 29, 2019 · Leave a comment

Sheila Carter-Jones: Running into a high school classmate years after

I was the only, back then Negro, girl
in a class of four hundred waves splashing,
tossing me about in the crash

October 9, 2019 · 1 Comment

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