

Jess Cole
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Rita Dove and the Younger Poet Who ‘Electrified’ Her
Rita Dove taught Safiya Sinclair that “it’s OK to say a thing plainly.”

In a Younger Theater Artist, a Writer Finds a Kindred Ambition
Bernardine Evaristo helped start London’s Theatre of Black Women in the early 1980s when creative opportunities were slim. She sees a similar determination to “shape...