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Ep. 51 | Poetry Corner: upfromsumdirt
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In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by upfromsumdirt.
Things Mentioned
- The Second Stop Is Jupiter: Poems by upfromsumdirt
- The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife by upfromsumdirt
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
- None But the Righteous by Chantal James
- The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories by Bruno Schulz
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin
- The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
- African Myths of Origin edited by Stephen Belcher
- Unravel: Poems by Tolu Oloruntoba
Guest Info
upfromsumdirt, aka Ronald W. Davis, is an autodidactic poet, visual artist, and designer from Louisville, Kentucky. He is the illustrator of A Is for Affrilachia and the NAACP Image Award–winning Perfect Black. He is the author of many chapbooks and the full-length collections The Second Stop Is Jupiter: Poems, To Emit Teal, and Deifying a Total Darkness.
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