Conversations with Kiese Laymon Urban to trust her feelings when

to trust her feelings when her father remarried

the streets fill with a whirl of color and sound

and the universal journey of finding where one belongs

All Power to the People

Conversations with Kiese Laymon Urban to trust her feelings whenIn over a dozen interviews, Conversations with Kiese Laymon provides an in depth look at author Kiese Laymon as an educator, creative writer, activist, family member, and Mississippian. Interviews capture surprising insights into Laymon's life and craft. Within these pages, Laymon talks about his engagement with other writers, including Richard Wright, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty. These revelations situate his memoir, Heavy, among other great