From the Archive: Why Writing Matters in the Age of Despair
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...moreWhen I decided I needed to write this piece, I spent a lot of time wondering whether I could. Whether I should.
...moreFor Lenny Letter, Doreen St. Félix writes on the legacy of Phillis Wheatley, the first black poet to have her work published in America: In her second life, Wheatley’s poetry—and the imagined determination it took to create it, to appropriate the language of white imperialism for her personal truth—has become a founding myth, of a […]
...moreIt was like being marched through someone’s private idea of a perfect night, a night where I was the center but one that had curiously little to do with me at all—all of which is to say that in an equation of desire, the object of desire can be integral and incidental at the same […]
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