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Omotara James

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Omotara James is the author of Song of My Softening (forthcoming from Alice James Books, 2022). She has been awarded fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary, and the Cave Canem Foundation. A recipient of the 92Y/Discovery Poetry Prize, James is a visual artist, editor, and teacher of poetry in New York City. She believes that radical thought without radical action is dead.

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