"Poetry for the People": Reading Garveyism through PoetryMain MenuThe Archive: Digitized Pages of "Poetry for the People"Selections from the Archive (w/ annotations)Writing in Response: Original Poems by Jessica Covil (w/ annotations)Author BioJessica Covilbefbd202fee65d3b0b02693336167edefd409cba
1media/Duke.jpg2018-10-25T18:18:17-07:00Author Bio9plain2018-10-25T18:40:34-07:00Jessica Covil is a second-year English PhD student at Duke University. Her research focuses on literary representations of community, belonging, and “home” in 20th-Century American Literature, and on connections between the poetic and the political, especially in Black Feminist theory and praxis. She holds BAs in English and Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago.
Her digital project "'Poetry for the People': Reading Garveyism through Poetry" is part of her work as a Fellow for the Representing Migration Humanities Lab.
