Last year, Adrian Matejka took the helm of Poetry Magazine, a venerable magazine that turned 110 years old on his watch. Matejka, who was born in Germany as part of a military family and grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, became the first Black person ever to edit the magazine. For National Poetry Month this year, he talked with Tess Taylor about rap, public service, writing a graphic novel – “Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century,” – community gardening and building a big tent for art, as well as what it means to take over a storied literary institution and build it for the present.
Read the CNN article here.
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