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Rachel Jamison Webster

Rachel Jamison Webster
Rachel Jamison Webster is the author of Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family(Henry Holt, 2023). She has also published four books of poetry—Mary is a River, which was a finalist for the 2014 National Poetry Series; September; The Endless Unbegun; and The Sea Came Up & Drowned, which includes erasure poetry and Rachel’s visual art. Rachel’s poems and essays often appear in anthologies and journals, including Poetry, Tin House, and The Yale Review. She lives with her husband and daughter in Evanston, Illinois.


The Ethics of Writing About Race as a White Woman

Rachel Jamison Webster on Oral Traditions, Racial Ancestries, and Confronting Shame
March 21, 2023  By Rachel Jamison Webster
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