“Here go a paycheck with your / name spelled right. Here go trees that applaud. Here go / what your whole body remember.” In this video, Angel Nafis reads a poem for the WordXWord Festival's Tuesday Project. Nafis is the author of BlackGirl Mansion, which was published by Red Beard Press/New School Poetics in 2012.
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