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There's a Revolution Outside, My Love Letters from a Crisis

Tracy K. Smith

This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today—Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor—to give voice to the unthinkable grief and hopeful possibilities born in an e...

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On Being with Krista Tippett

This book is a collection of 40 pieces spanning a wide range of BIPOC voices, offering a searching look at the meaning of racial catharsis. It was co-edited by Tracy K. Smith and featured contributions from various authors, including Michael Kleber-Diggs.

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The pandemic memoirs began almost immediately, but now comes another kind of offering. A searching look at the meaning and possibilities in the racial catharsis to which the pandemic in some sense gav...

— Episode: Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs...

Episode: Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs — ‘History...

This book is a collection of 40 pieces spanning a wide range of BIPOC voices, offering a searching look at the meaning of racial catharsis. It was co-edited by Tracy K. Smith and featured contributions from various authors, including Michael Kleber-Diggs.

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The pandemic memoirs began almost immediately, but now comes another kind of offering. A searching look at the meaning and possibilities in the racial catharsis to which the pandemic in some sense gave birth and voice and life.

Tracy K. Smith co-edited the book, There's a Revolution Outside, My Love, Letters from a Crisis. She joins me together with Michael Kleber-Diggs, who contributed to that work.

But the 40 voices in this volume span an array of BIPOC lives and perspectives from Edwidge Danticat to Reginald Dwayne Betts, from Lely Longsoldier to Ross Gay to Julia Alvarez.

Today I'm with Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs. They have contributed to a stunning book of 40 BIPOC voices looking inward and outward, backwards and forwards from inside the racial catharsis at this pivotal time to be alive.

And the title of this collection is There's a Revolution Outside My Love.

Episode: Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs — ‘History...

This book is a collection of 40 pieces spanning a variety of BIPOC voices; it reflects on the Black experience of 2020 and the murder of George Floyd. It was described as a searching look at the meaning and possibilities in the racial catharsis of the time.

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The pandemic memoirs began almost immediately, but now comes another kind of offering. A searching look at the meaning and possibilities in the racial catharsis to which the pandemic in some sense gave birth and voice and life.

Tracy K. Smith co-edited the book, There's a Revolution Outside, My Love, Letters from a Crisis.

But the 40 voices in this volume span an array of BIPOC lives and perspectives from Edwidge Danticat to Reginald Dwayne Betts, from Lely Longsoldier to Ross Gay to Julia Alvarez.

Episode: [Unedited] Tracy K. Smith and Michael Kleber-Diggs...

This book is a collection of 40 essays from various BIPOC voices, offering a look at the racial catharsis that emerged during the pandemic. The podcast hosts discussed the book's significance and the contributions of two of its contributors.

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This book feels heavy in an appropriate way.

it's not just looking back.

History is upon us... its hand against our back.

I see you in all your forms, Black America. And I feel inside me a welling up of pride, reverence and fierce protection.

We are sick and tired. We are fearsome. We are fire. Like God, we are that we are.

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