Saeed Jones on the Profundity to Be Found in the Grieving Process
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Poet and writer Saeed Jones, author of the new poetry collection “Alive at the End of the World,” talks about growing up Black and queer in the suburban city of Lewisville, Texas; how the murders of James Byrd, Jr., and Matthew Shepard haunted him throughout his teenage years and still do; and why, “in our culture right now, everything’s a proxy war, everything’s one-upmanship.”
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Published 10/30/24