Archive: Past Guests
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Jelani Cobb
Jelani Cobb is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture.
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DeRay Mckesson
DeRay Mckesson is an organizer, activist, and educator focused primarily on issues of innovation, equity and justice.
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Randall Kenan
Randall Kenan is an acclaimed author of fiction and nonfiction born in Brooklyn, New York. After he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan worked for several years
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Charles Cobb, Jr.
Charles Cobb, Jr., is an author, poet, and journalist born in Washington, D.C. A field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Mississippi from 1962 to 1967, Cobb or
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Patricia O'Connor
Patricia O’Connor is a sociolinguist and Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. Her work in prisons, jails, and drug treatment centers situates her narrative research. She is the aut
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Raúl Zurita
Raúl Zurita, winner of the Chilean National Poetry Prize, is one of the best known poets of Latin America.
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Adam Zagajewski
Adam Zagajewski’s Without End: New and Selected Poems was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2002.
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Saadi Yousef
Saadi Yousef was born near Basra, Iraq, in 1934.
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John Yau
John Yau is a poet, fiction writer, art critic and curator with more than 30 books to his credit.
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Sandra Doller
Sandra Doller is the author of three poetry collections: Oriflamme (2005), Chora (2010) and Man Years (2011).
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