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Destiny O. Birdsong

Destiny O. Birdsong
Destiny O. Birdsong’s writing has appeared in The Paris Review, African American Review, and Catapult, among other publications. She has received the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Richard G. Peterson Poetry Prize. Her critically‑acclaimed debut collection of poems, Negotiations, was longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Voelcker Award and published by Tin House Books.


How Stories Emerge from Afro-Diasporic Collective Memory

Destiny O. Birdsong on Language as a Currency of Knowledge
February 11, 2022  By Destiny O. Birdsong
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