Tag: Melissa Orion
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* where the poet is: a personal note
In an essay entitled “Tough Eloquence,” poet Yusef Komuyakaa writes about the life and work of Etheridge Knight. There’s a story and poem towards the end of the essay that has always stayed with me throughout the years: “Etheridge Knight died in March 1991. For more than a year before, at various readings, he’d say […]