by Elizabeth Alexander

The New Yorker, June 15, 2020

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/06/22/the-trayvon-generation

“Black creativity emerges from long lines of innovative responses to the death and violence that plague our communities. ‘Not a house in the country ain’t packed to its rafters with some dead Negro’s grief,’ Toni Morrison wrote in Beloved, and I am interested in creative emergences from that ineluctable fact.”