This week in the PEN Poetry Series, PEN America features a poem by Candace Williams. Artist note: “This poem is a whiteout erasure of the newspaper article “EXPLORER VERNER HOME WITH AFRICAN CURIOS; Brings Mr. Otabenga, a Dwarf, to Act as His Valet” published by the New York Times on September 2, 1906″

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