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The Conversation

The Conversation’s purpose is rooted in carving out space for Black Americans to contend with their Blackness & its infinite permutations in the South. Central to The Conversation is documenting contemporary POC relationships to the American South, reformatting the literary conference model, engaging with Southern communities of young writers and the reclamation of land.

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The Conversation

Apr 2, 2016

The Conversation: Jayson Smith and A. H. Jerriod Avant

My responsibility is to not be negligent and cause unnecessary harm. To a listener or reader. My allegiance is only to truth.
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Apr 1, 2016

The Conversation: José Olivarez and Nate Marshall

There are so many spaces in this country where I feel unsafe particularly because of my body.
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Mar 31, 2016

The Conversation: Joshua Bennett and Camonghne Felix

What scares me in the current work is how much I trust the concept, what I’m trying to achieve.
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Mar 30, 2016

The Conversation: Angel Nafis, Safia Elhillo, and Elizabeth Acevedo

I don’t think it ever fully sunk in for me that I even live in America.
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Mar 29, 2016

The Conversation: Jeremy Clark and Thiahera Nurse

I’m thinking about the difference between “I stay somewhere” and “I live somewhere.”
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Mar 28, 2016

The Conversation: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib and Paul Tran

The sitting down to write, convincing myself that my voice matters, even though there are so many telling me that it doesn’t.
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Mar 27, 2016

The Conversation: Desiree Bailey and Sean DesVignes

For me, intersectionality is a reality that I can’t escape.
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Mar 26, 2016

The Conversation: Cortney Lamar Charleston and Danez Smith

The South is my favorite cousin.
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The Conversation

Mar 25, 2016

The Conversation: Prologue

Dear Reader, For the past year, we, Aziza Barnes and Nabila Lovelace, The Founders of The Conversation, debated how we could create space for folk we love, whose work is critical, in the South. We had been living in New York, which is…