Morgan Parker (writer)

thumb|Parker in 2017 Morgan Parker (born December 19, 1987) is an American poet, novelist, and editor. Quotes Some writers want to write something that doesn’t exist within a time, but I’m not interested in that. I want to capture particular moments in time…I’ve always seen my writing as an attempt to document and be specific in that documentation. On her poetry not existing in a vacuum in “You Are on Display: An Interview with Morgan Parker” in The Paris Review (2016 Jul 22) I just feel left out of the whole possibility of love and romance. I hate that that is related to my race, and I hate that I believe it. I hate that I have felt it for so long, and I hate that white women have it so easy. And it’s not that they are all beautiful or interesting—their face could look like a piece of paper, but there is a cultural perspective skewed towards them. We are asked to compare ourselves to them. On her feelings about romance in “Morgan Parker: ‘In the back of my mind I’m on a slave ship, yet I’m also here just telling you how it is.’” in Guernica Magazine (2019 Mar 22) I’m existing on all of these different planes: in one moment I’m here, then I’m in the future, then I’m on a slave ship… On code switching for Black people in “Morgan Parker: ‘In the back of my mind I’m on a slave ship, yet I’m also here just telling you how it is.’” in Guernica Magazine (2019 Mar 22) When we're born, our experience is half the time spent undoing these ideas that were placed onto our body since birth and then building a personal identity on top of that. On the Black experience in “'Magical Negro' Carries The Weight Of History” in NPR (2019 Feb 11) External links Category:African Americans Category:Poets from the United States Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Editors from the United States Category:1987 births Category:Living people