Interview
because whiteness isn't a race to people, but it just so happens that people in my poems are black, so people say I'm writing about race. But, no. I'm writing about loss, history, and what's forgotten. However, it's always seen th rough some lens of blackness or race and 1 think that is a barrier to some readers, but not all of them . Some wi ll only read through that lens and not see I'm many things at once: black, mixed, southern, woman, a daughter, a motherless ch ild, all at once. If I d idn't have blackness, people would go to the next thing, the next thing to focus on, but blackness just stands out there like the 8' guerrilla in the room. SK Or a white elephant. NT : Or one of each.
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