Martheaus Perkins: Lyrical Reckoning & the American Dream
Amanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker chat with Martheaus Perkins, author of The Grace of Black Mothers, about Black motherhood, poetic form, and the complicated inheritance of the American Dream.
Martheaus Perkins is a first-generation college graduate and son of a single Black mother. He is the author of The Grace of Black Mothers, published with Trio House Press. His writing has appeared in Black Warrior Review, diode, Obsidian, Mizna, and Beloit. The name “Martheaus” is a collection of each woman who raised him: “Mar-” was his grandmother, “-Thea-” is his mother, and “-us” represents the…
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