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“Literary Hub » Natasha Trethewey on the essential teachings of John Edgar Wideman.”
“The author of more than twenty books: novels, short fiction, memoir, and nonfiction, Wideman has been hailed as a master of language, a generational talent, one of America’s premier writers of fiction.”
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“Even though I had decided to write poetry, the person I wanted to study with was John Edgar Wideman.”
“It was for me the feeling of being given permission by the highest authority—a writer whose own courageous reckoning in his memoir Brothers and Keepers I knew well.”
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“I’ll also never forget the release of his novel The Cattle Killing , from which I was lucky enough to hear him read back then at UMASS.”
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“I’ll never forget sitting in his office one afternoon early in my graduate career; I’d sought him out, distraught, after my famous poetry professor dismissed my work—indeed my reasons for writing—by telling me to unburden myself of being black, unburden myself of the death of my mother and to “just pour your heart out in the poems.” John listened intently, his gaze turning toward the window out of which it seemed he could see far beyond the place and moment we were in, forward and backward, across time and space.”
“The ceremony was held on Monday, October 26, 2026, at the Morgan Library & Museum.”
“For nearly six decades, John Edgar Wideman has been publishing essential work that grapples with the legacies of America’s troubled and fraught past, our collective history, as well as our individual trials, race and culture and politics.”
“The ongoing quest for justice in a world that seems, it turns more and less just all of this with a ferocity and independence of mind, searing vision and moral clarity.”