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Essex Hemphill
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Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-poet-who-spoke-to-the-b...

Article: http://washingtonart.com/beltway/hemphill.html

Book: Duberman, Martin. Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS. The New Press, 2014.

Book: Hemphill, Essex. Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry. Plume, 1992. 

Book: Merla, Patrick. Boys Like Us: Gay Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories. Avon Books, 1996.

Website: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/essex-hemphill

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