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Jesse Curran
JoinedAugust 20, 2024
Jesse Curran, PhD, is a poet, essayist, scholar, and teacher who lives in Northport, NY. Her essays and poems have appeared in dozens of literary journals including About Place, Ruminate, Allium, and Blueline. She teaches in the Department of English at SUNY Old Westbury.
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A Hard Look at Home: On the Paradoxes of Place

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I channel Kincaid’s ironic and critical tone, while atoning for my failures to recognize dominant racist and classist discourses.
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