Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon is a black Southern writer, born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He is the author of the novel Long Division and a collection of essays, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.
October 17, 2017
The poet and sociologist’s gleefully unorthodox work on blackness.
Hey Mama
By Kiese Laymon
March 17, 2014
A black mother and her son talk about language and love in the South.
You Are The Second Person
By Kiese Laymon
June 17, 2013
You wondered out loud what writing “multiculturally” actually meant and what kind of black man would write the word “bro” in an email.