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Winter 2004 • Vol. XXVI No. 1 • Nonfiction |

When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness

By Rowan Ricardo Phillips

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Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of The Ground (FSG: 2012) for which he received a Whiting Award, the PEN/Osterweil Award for Poetry, the GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. Heaven will be published by FSG in June 2015. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

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