Our beloved Henry Dumas was shot & killed by a NYC transit cop in 1968. Since then my father has lovingly edited the work he left behind. I am my father’s daughter. Here an audio essay of the print version I published in the Yale Review:

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The Memoir My Dad Wouldn’t Write is a radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker. He wouldn’t write a memoir, so this series of conversations is partly that.

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