Week Eleven

(Start with my first post if you’re unfamiliar with my lists.)

8/31/20

• Sean Shearer, “Rewinding an Overdose on a Projector” (poem)
• Mary Miller, “Festival” (story)
• Tony Hoagland, “The Cure for Racism is Cancer” (essay)
• — (music)

9/1/20

• Nathaniel Ratcliff, “Mavis” (music)
• Azizat Danmole, “Between Practice and Perfection” (story)
• Roxanne Gay, “Black in Middle America” and Jesmyn Ward, “On Witness and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by a Pandemic” (essays)
• Lauren Yates, “Traitor” (poem)

9/2/20

• Pamela Painter, “Twins” and Walter Dean Myers, “Big Joe’s Funeral” (stories)
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Ta-Nehisi Coates on Vanity Fair’s September Issue, The Great Fire” (essay)
• Nancy Takacs, “Dearest Water” (poem)
• — (music)

9/3/20

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Life Breonna Taylor Lived, in the Word of her Mother” (essay)
• Margaret Burroughs, “The Beauty of Black” (poem)
• Frank London Brown, “A Matter of Time” (story)
• St. Paul and the Broken Bones, “Grass is Greener” (music)

9/4/20

• Chester Himes, “Mama’s Missionary Money” (story)
• Irene Fick, “The Greatest Unease” (essay)
• Johnnie Taylor, “Last Two Dollars” (music)
• Reginald Dwayne Betts, “Blood History” (poem)

9/5/20

• Joy Harjo, “Break My Heart” and “My grandfather Monahwee” (poems)
• Jacqueline Woodson, “You Said Hope” (essay)
• Noname, “Self” (music)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar, “The Lynching of Jude Benson” (story)

9/6/20

• Langston Hughes, “One Friday Morning” (story)
• David James Duncan, “Northwest Passage” (essay)
• A.R. Ammons, “So I Said I Am Ezra” (poem)
• Buffy Sainte-Marie, “Darling Don’t Cry” (music)

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