Saeed Jones on Slipperiness, Naps, & Decolonizing the Canon

Hey poets & poetry lovers! I'm so thrilled to present this episode with an iconic headliner of The 12th Annual New York City Poetry Festival, Saeed Jones!

Saeed is the author of the memoir HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction & the poetry collection PRELUDE TO BRUISE, winner for the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His poetry & essays have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Oxford American & GQ among other publications. His new poetry collection ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD is out now.

You can find Saeed at @theferocity on Instagram & Twitter, as well as on the podcast Vibe Check! Thank you Saeed for having a coke with us today!

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