Jerriod Avant

  • Weekend Rumpus Roundup

    First, National Poetry Month at The Rumpus continues with Paula Bohince’s “The Flint River” and Adam McGovern’s “Perseid meteors, 2015.” Meanwhile, the inimitable Brandon Hicks illustrates the exhaustive contents of his 2005 Saturn Ion. Then, in the eighth installment of The Conversation, Jayson…

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

    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.

  • 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…