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Episode 145 | Episode 3: Amanda Waller Has a Woman-to-Woman with Harley Quinn w/ Dr. Len Lawson

11/12/2021

Connor and Jack are joined by special guest Dr. Len Lawson, co-editor of the new collection "The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry." just released from Blair Publishing. Together they discuss Lawson's poem "Amanda Waller Suite Episode 3: Amanda Waller Has a Woman-to-Woman with Harley Quinn." They discuss finding the complex human side of characters like Waller, the poem's resonance with Nikky Finney's Condoleezza suite, and how the collection "The Future of Black" came together.

Get a copy of "The Future of Black" here.

Connor and Jack discuss a poem from Finney's Condoleezza Suite on Episode 73 of Close Talking here.

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