OPEN STACKS | #5 Historical Amnesia: Clint Smith & Donna Seaman
June 12th, 2017
Poet Clint Smith discusses his debut collection, Counting Descent, growing up black in America, and our society's problems with historical amnesia and cultural pathology. Critic Donna Seaman tells the story of forgotten artist Gertrude Abercrombie.
This episode was produced by Kit Brennen.
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