2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week:
Joshua Aiken, Wear a Clean Second Face (Poetry), New Haven, CT
Wear a Clean Second Face is a project focused on the paradoxes of American football: owners, profit, and spectacle; brutality, cognition, & desire; masculinity, vulnerability, embodiment; blackness, tenderness, intimacy, and flesh.
“I hope this project will be a small reminder, even to myself, that our lives are worth living and worth fighting for.”
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Learn about Joshua’s recent poetry chapbook publication, to be in & of
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