But Too Beautiful: A discussion of Tracie Morris' “Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful”

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But Too Beautiful: A discussion of Tracie Morris' “Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful”

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Jan 11, 2017

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Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Edwin Torres, Camara Brown, and Brooke O’Harra.

Released:

Jan 11, 2017

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Titles in the series (99)

Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles Bernstein, Sawako Nakayasu, Simone White, and others.

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But Too Beautiful: A discussion of Tracie Morris' “Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful”

But Too Beautiful: A discussion of Tracie Morris' “Slave Sho to Video aka Black but Beautiful”

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