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Poets of the World!

January 29, 2020

Watch Kwame Dawes and Matthew Shenoda tell the origin story of the African Poetry Book Fund—and learn why, if you're a serious reader, you should be paying close attention to their publications. As Kwame says: "This work is some of the best work out there. I can say that categorically."

The American publishing world is dominated—dominated is a mild word—by white people. KWAME DAWES