Editors' Note: This essay is one of a group of essays on Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde. Read the rest. What is “avant-garde poetry”? is a question long on answers, if short on consensus. On the one ...

Some of you art enthusiasts and literature lovers might already be familiar with the term “Avant-Garde”. Others may have seen it here and there, with the word looking a bit intimidating. Like many ...

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