‘There Are Very Few Moments More Beautiful in This Life’: The Reckoning and Reverie of When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again | An Interview With A. Van Jordan

In late spring 2007, I was admitted into a Hurston-Wright Foundation workshop, where I shared my first efforts at lines I’d call poems with MQR Assistant Managing Editor monét cooper and several other writers. There, workshop leader A. Van Jordan excavated the kernels of conceits and quiet music underneath all our noise. On our last […]

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In late spring 2007, I was admitted into a Hurston-Wright Foundation workshop, where I shared my first efforts at lines I’d call poems with MQR Assistant Managing Editor monét cooper and several other writers. There, workshop leader A. Van Jordan excavated the kernels of conceits and quiet music underneath all our noise. On our last