If a poet says they don’t do drama, I just know they’ve never had to sit at the same table with James Baldwin and Langston Hughes. by Maya Angelou

You two are both exhausting, which is why the work was excellent.

James acts like he invented being right and poetic. Baby, he just had a louder face.

Maya, please, you were the only one in the room who could end an argument and make it sound like a blessing.

I was minding my business writing America’s homework and y’all turned my name into a group chat.

All the noise, all the ego, and still nobody in this thread has written a better line than silence.

This is why I never trusted a panel. Too many geniuses, not enough snacks.

Langston, that’s because you wrote so clean people thought it was easy. It was not easy. It was dangerous with better lighting.

Toni, you wrote entire novels like a warning label and still had the nerve to call me dramatic.