This Thing Changed My Life Raifa Rafiq

On this episode of This Thing Changed My Life, Rai is joined by poet and director Caleb Femi. They discuss literature, blackness, heartbreak, his debut poetry collection, POOR and the things that have changed his life including James Baldwin’s Another Country and Frank Ocean’s Nostalgia Ultra.

Books: 

This is how you lose her - Junot Diaz

Guillotine: Poems - Eduardo C. Corral, 

Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin

Just Us: An American Conversation - Claudia Rankine

Poor is out now! 



Thank you for joining us for this first season, we will be back in the new year with more conversations featuring incredible artists and creators. 



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