Jericho Brown on Claude McKay’s Subversive, Foundational Poems of Love and Protest

Jericho Brown on Claude McKay’s Subversive, Foundational Poems of Love and Protest

“In Harlem Shadows McKay used form to inscribe the fact of his own Blackness.”

By Jericho Brown | January 11, 2022

'Correspondence' <br>A Poem by Jericho Brown

'Correspondence'
A Poem by Jericho Brown

From his collection The Tradition

By Jericho Brown | April 8, 2019

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