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Steffan Triplett

Steffan Triplett is the assistant director for the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and the author of the forthcoming Bad Forecast (Essay Press).

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Reality and Rationale in ‘Dead in Long Beach, California’

Novelist Venita Blackburn contemplates expectation, the self, and gender in the internet age.

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The Long Rally of Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen’

Poet Claudia Rankine conceptualizes race as it manifests in tennis and over time in Citizen, the April CBC selection.