There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.
One of the blessings and curses of my life is that I carry so many projects at the same time.
All memory is fiction.
Racist writing is a craft failure.
When people open up and share their stories, you have a responsibility to tell these truths truthfully and with the same quest for grace and beauty that you see in them.
I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once at home and away from home at the same time. It is inevitable that my perspective will be international.