Saeed Jones appears in the following:
Saeed Jones's New Year's Determinations
Wednesday, January 01, 2020
The writer reads an essay about his mom, and explains why she always made New Year's "determinations" instead of "resolutions."
Saeed Jones Talks About Sex. And Death. And Money.
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
The writer and poet traces the joy and shame of learning about sex, mourning his mother, and finally feeling financially comfortable.
Saeed Jones on 'How We Fight for Our Lives'
Monday, October 14, 2019
Saeed Jones joins us to discuss his memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives.
Toni Morrison's New Novel Is Best Read With Her Backlist In Mind
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
When we talk about Toni Morrison, we are also talking about what it means to thrive in the midst of well-manicured and eloquent hostility. With God Help The Child, Morrison — America's only living Nobel Prize-winning novelist — has offered us not only her 11th novel, but an opportunity to ...
Doing The Hard Work Of Becoming A 'Real Man'
Monday, September 01, 2014
The process of becoming a man isn't always an easy one, but poet Saeed Jones says that reading Real Man Adventures by T Cooper, can make the journey more joyful.
James Baldwin Reappeared Just When We Needed Him Most
Sunday, May 04, 2014
More than once this week I've caught myself reading yet another news story about Donald Sterling or Cliven Bundy, wondering what it means for me, a black gay man, to exist in America at the same time as men like them. Have they been thinking about people like me just ...
