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# morgan parker
- URL: https://atelier.qxavier.com/living-inspirations/inspiration-morgan-parker/
- Published: 2026-10-06T11:51:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T11:51:00.000Z
- Description: assistant professor of english literature • swarthmore college
- Author: quincéy xavier
- Tags: living inspirations, #Import 2026-10-16 06:39

*assistant professor of english literature • swarthmore college*

a poet, essayist, and novelist with five books, among them *there are more beautiful things than beyoncé*, *magical negro*, and *you get what you pay for*. she teaches english literature at swarthmore college.

bio from [swarthmore college](https://www.swarthmore.edu/profile/morgan-parker?ref=atelier.qxavier.com)

### read

- [A Conversation with Morgan Parker](https://booth.butler.edu/2026/07/01/a-conversation-with-morgan-parker/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — booth, butler university, 2026
- [What Was Haunting Me Was Not Myself: A Conversation with Morgan Parker](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/what-was-haunting-me-was-not-myself-a-conversation-with-morgan-parker/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — los angeles review of books, 2024
- [In Conversation: Morgan Parker & Rachel Long](https://granta.com/morgan-parker-and-rachel-long-in-conversation/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — granta, 2020
- [Morgan Parker's 'Magical Negro' and the Multiplicity of Blackness](https://www.vice.com/en/article/morgan-parker-magical-negro-author-interview/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — vice, 2019
- [Morgan Parker on poetry and the everyday](https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/morgan-parker-on-poetry-as-part-of-the-everyday/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — the creative independent, 2016

### watch

- [11th Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Morgan Parker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUKDn%5FE1Ma4&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — uc santa cruz, 2020
- [Morgan Parker, a reading](https://voca.arizona.edu/reading/morgan-parker-september-6-2018?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — university of arizona poetry center, 2018
- [There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé](https://www.pw.org/content/there%5Fare%5Fmore%5Fbeautiful%5Fthings%5Fthan%5Fbeyonce?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — gavagai, via poets & writers, 2017
- [Morgan Parker, Poet: Brooklyn Is Masquerading As The World](https://www.pw.org/content/morgan%5Fparker%5F1?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — bric tv, via poets & writers, 2016
- [Morgan Parker: Magical Negro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrBksuwgQVI&ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — the cheeky natives

### hear

- [Morgan Parker vs. Now](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/150586/morgan-parker-vs-now?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — vs, poetry foundation, 2019
- [Morgan Parker: There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé](https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/morgan-parker-there-are-more-beautiful-things-than-beyonce?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — bookworm, kcrw, 2017
- [Episode 23: Morgan Parker](https://commonplace.today/commonplace-podcast/episode-23-morgan-parker?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — commonplace, 2017
- [Dawn Lundy Martin, Morgan Parker, Danez Smith](https://literary-arts.org/archive/dawn-lundy-martin-morgan-parker-danez-smith/?ref=atelier.qxavier.com) — the archive project, literary arts, 2017