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Poems Are Really for People Who Don’t Read Them: on Patricia Smith’s "The Intentions of Thunder"

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By Jet Toomer, Laura June
| The Rumpus
The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers our readers may already know and love. We want to bring new perspectives into the conversation that will make us all look deeper.
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The unofficial guide to a southern family reunion | Miami Herald

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By Jet Toomer
| Miami Herald Verified
By the time my auntie-cousin Sylvia’s 70th birthday rolled around this summer, my family hadn’t gathered together in nearly three years, maybe even four. Her birthday party, at her son’s and daughter-in-law’s sprawling Conyers, Georgia, home was going to be a fête. It had been a long time coming. My mother started bringing us to Atlanta to hang with her paternal cousins when I was a pre-teen and my sister in her early twenties.
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Queering the family reunion Original

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By Jet Toomer
| The Charlotte Observer Verified
Cooking, cleaning, feeding, being fed. Planning, caring, alerting, reminding, collecting, dispersing. Running errands, thinking of others, and sticking to the schedule. Others, especially children, and elders come first. When I think of what my life could be, especially in the context of organizing a summer gathering, ostensibly one with family, my family, I immediately locate what might be the tasks I would inherit at a family reunion. Work. Work for tradition.
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