W. Ralph Eubanks Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

W. Ralph Eubanks

“[Newman] juxtaposes sourced archival black and white images…with his constructed contemporary imagery which is grounded and contextualized by essays and poems written by himself, W. Ralph Eubanks, Patricia Smith, and Kevin Young.” https://t.co/FflSqYK9uN

W. Ralph Eubanks

Beverly Lowry’s “Deer Creek Drive” is a vivid portrait of a world of privilege and willful blindness that would be recognizable to Willie Morris, since this story reveals the way bigotry, as well as a violent crime, echoes across time and memory. https://t.co/MbHyTrPKCV

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Mia Word’s favorite poets include Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton, Jericho Brown, and Audre Lorde. Next year, the English concentrator’s creative thesis will center on women’s voices from her home, the Mississippi Delta. https://t.co/JCFBf5Boqn https://t.co/TLtiyU6r6D

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If you are around Meridian, Mississippi, next Saturday, stop by the “First Saturday" Book signing at the @msartsorg . I’ll be there with my fellow MS writers. https://t.co/eEyBEc93e8

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To understand this new designation, read Natasha Trethewey's "Native Guard," in which she explores "the tension evident in being a native of a place that has denied full citizenship to many native sons and daughters." https://t.co/kmdqZa9qgC

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In "The World and the Jug," Ellison wrote, "Novelists create not simply out of 'memory' but out of memory modified, extended, transformed by social change." That is exactly what Richard Wright did in The Man Who Lived Underground. https://t.co/LXP44vb6Nw

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I'm so happy to see my fellow 2021-2022 @RadInstitute fellow Roger Reeves on the @nationalbook longlist for his poetry collection "Best Barbarian." https://t.co/EUqBcGeZ35

W. Ralph Eubanks

You can still register to join me for my conversation with Connor @towneoneill tonight to discuss his book, DOWN ALONG WITH THAT DEVIL'S BONES at @BlueWillowBooks Register now to join us — and pick up your copy of the book — right here: https://www.bluewillowbookshop.com/event/connor-towne-oneill-down-along-devils-bones

W. Ralph Eubanks

"In order to imagine a new world, you have to be kind of primed for it." @adrianshirk on "How To Leave the World Behind" from her new book "Heaven is a Place on Earth." https://lithub.com/how-to-leave-the-world-behind-on-the-dreams-utopian-groupies/ via @lithub

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This is a stunning poem. Read four poems by @serhiy_zhadan newly translated by @aglaser and Yulia Ilchuk. https://t.co/hGZI6ZecJd https://t.co/IAz0kRsZD6