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Hold Up: Grief’s Uneasy Pleasures in Richard Bruce Nugent’s ‘Smoke, Lilies and Jade’ In honor of Harlem Renaissance Centennial, poet and scholar Korey Williams revisits Richard Bruce Nugent’s blazing queer short story ‘Smoke, Lilies and Jade.’ Williams reflects on…

In honor of Harlem Renaissance Centennial, Korey Williams revisits Richard Bruce Nugent’s blazing queer short story ‘Smoke, Lilies and Jade.’ Williams reflects on the story’s treatise on love and beauty, its abiding legacy, and its singular lesson for today’s living. #HarlemRenaissance100

💯 years ago, the Harlem Renaissance started in New York but was a global cultural revolution that reshaped art, music, literature, and activism.

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