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Jericho Brown Writes What’s On His Mind
Posted: July 18, 2010
Tags: Harlem Renaissance, Janis Joplin, Natasha Trethewey, Mary J. Blige, poetry
“I think we’ve been telling our students so long, ‘Write what you know. Write your lived experience,’ and I think our students have this idea that that means write about the time A, B, and C happened to me, but that’s not really it. It’s more, write what you can’t stop thinking about. Write what’s on your mind.”
