EDITOR’S LETTER

On POSSIBILITY

It was at the National Book Awards last fall that I decided I wanted to devote an issue to the idea of possibility. The poet Jericho Brown was onstage to present Rita Dove with a lifetime achievement award. “I imagine I don’t have to tell you what seeing Rita’s face on posters in the schools and libraries where I was reared meant to me and my sense of possibility,” he said. “Possibility is what allows us the nerve to write and to believe that something can be made of our scribbles. Most of us are here in spite of, and sometimes because of, the fact that someone else thought the life we chose, the artist’s life, was not a sustainable life.… I’m here today because I am the descendant of…

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Harper's Bazaar (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2024

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