I really enjoyed this conversation with Matt Miller (and Karen Karbiener). You can view it now on YouTube.
Walt Whitman, Racism, and American Literature: Matt Miller and Lavelle Porter
Walt Whitman, Racism, and American Literature
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Category Archives: New York
In Search of Samuel R. Delany
I have a new review essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books on two recently published books by Chip Delany: In Search of Silence: The Journals of Samuel R. Delany, Volume I, 1957-1969 (Wesleyan University Press, 2017) and Voyage, Orestes! (Bamberger Books, 2019).
“In Search of Samuel R. Delany”
Should Walt Whitman Be #Cancelled?: Black America talks back to “The Good Gray Poet” at 200.
I have a new piece out for National Poetry Month on JSTOR Daily about Walt Whitman, black writers, and the upcoming 200th anniversary celebrations of his birth.
A Walk Through Teju Cole’s Open City
I have a new piece out in the “Big Apple” issue of The Revelator, edited by Eric Schaller and Matthew Cheney. “A Walk Through Teju Cole’s Open City” was inspired by teaching Open City and taking my students on a walking tour of Lower Manhattan.
Paule Marshall’s “Brooklyn” and the #MeToo Movement
In my latest post for Black Perspectives I wrote about teaching Paule Marshall’s short story “Brooklyn” and how the story anticipates current conversations on sexual harassment and abuse. Special thanks go out to my City Tech students for reading, thinking through, and writing about this story in our classes last semester. “Paule Marshall’s “Brooklyn” and the #MeToo Movement.”
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