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Bookmark or Share- Saeed JonesSaeed Jones is the author of the memoir HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the poetry collection PRELUDE TO BRUISE, winner for the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His poetry and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Oxford American and GQ among other publications.
- Saeed Jones On Growing Up Black And Gay In 'How We Fight For Our ... - NPRSaeed Jones has served as BuzzFeed's LGBT editor and culture editor, and is the author of Prelude to Bruise. Courtesy of Saeed Jones. As a black gay kid growing up in Texas in the 1990s,...
- How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones | GoodreadsSaeed Jones. 4.28. 21,848 ratings2,726 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Memoir & Autobiography (2019) From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power. “People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones.
- Saeed Jones | Poetry FoundationSaeed Jones was born in Memphis and raised in Lewisville, Texas. His poems often examine race, desire, power, and grief, and incorporate mythology as well as what he calls “black iconography.” In a 2014 interview for PEN America, Jones stated, “I’m obsessed with manhood as a brutal and artful…
- Interview with Saeed Jones: How We Fight For Our Lives - NPRIn this encore episode, poet and writer Saeed Jones discusses his memoir, How We Fight For Our Lives, a vulnerable exploration of his coming of age as black and gay in suburban Texas. The...
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