There’s a poem early In Taylor Byas’s 2021 chapbook Bloodwarm called “The Black Girl Comes to Dinner” that tells the story of a young woman riding in the car to a dinner with her lover’s family in Alabama. It’s unclear if the lover is a man or a woman, but it is very clear the lover is white, and the town she’s headed to is a sundown town. It is clear t…
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