Mahogany L. Browne reads from her introduction to Wanda Coleman’s poetry collection Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets—published in June 2022 by Black Sparrow Press—and Coleman’s “American Sonnet 4” and “American Sonnet 3.”
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