My impulse was to write the last black play ever for myself. I really believed if I put it all into one play, people would leave me alone.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Two Poems by Sarah Jean Grimm
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Carrie Schneider Moon Drawing #157, 2015, unique silver gelatin print made from one negative, 40 x 50 inches. Image courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.
Sarah Jean Grimm is the author of Soft Focus (Metatron, 2017) and a founding editor of Powder Keg Magazine. She edits the small press After Hours Editions, and hosts Bank Holiday, a reading series in Catskill, NY. She lives in New York City, where she works as a publicist at Catapult, Soft Skull, & Counterpoint Press.
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