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Morgan Parker

Morgan Parker
Morgan Parker is the author of Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015), selected by Eileen Myles for the 2013 Gatewood Prize. Her poetry and essays have been featured in numerous publications as well as anthologized in Why I Am Not a Painter (Argos Books 2011) and The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Haymarket Books 2015). Morgan is Cave Canem graduate fellow, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and poetry editor for The Offing. She also co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series with Tommy Pico, and with Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She lives in Brooklyn.
http://www.morgan-parker.com


“The World Is Beautiful but You Are Not in It”

A Poem by Morgan Parker
July 14, 2021  By Morgan Parker
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‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’A Poem by Morgan Parker

From Her Collection Magical Negro
February 5, 2019  By Morgan Parker
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A Brief History of the Present

After Michael Brown: Morgan Parker
August 11, 2015  By Morgan Parker
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ALL THEY WANT IS MY MONEY MY PUSSY MY BLOOD

A POEM by Morgan Parker
May 20, 2015  By Morgan Parker
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