“The prodigiously talented Jeffery Renard Allen is without question on of our most important writers.”
-Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Writings
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Nonfiction
Mother Wit | Granta
Fires in the Brain: Consciousness and Creation | Center for Fiction Essays
Reading the Behind and Blacking the Beyond | Big Other
Sugar | Kweli
Appropriation Is an Undeniable Fact of Human Interaction | Heated
Interview with John Keene | Big Other
African Lives Matter: The Future Crisis | Evergreen Review
Urgently Visible | Evergreen Review
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Poetry
Broke Into Motion | Tribes
Addie | State of Illinois Poet Laureate