What poets changed the way you thought about writing?
Langston Hughes and W.H. Auden were among those poets writing in the 1930s whose penchant for anti-racist, anti-war, and anti-fascist ruminations feed me. Their essay writing on poetry and politics are instructive. Gwendolyn Brooks and Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), not unlike Malcolm X, gave me a sense that one’s writing life and political commitments are not static. Fred Moten’s cerebral musings are always generative. I return to Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism often.
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