Interviews and Features
My Prow Towards the City/Woman on the Bus/My Relatives for the Most
...to remember our ancestors who soared above their burial stones
A Blue Letter: An Afrofuturist Story
In her bonnet and night clothes, she jumped against her bedroom wall, confused by the sight.
Redemption
Redemption, and its verb form “redeem,” come from Latin roots meaning essentially “to buy back,” but in common usage, it means “to atone for” or “to release.” Common meanings vary even more, but we can summarize the meaning of the noun form as fulfillment or freedom received in exchange for a payment. So what is the cost of freedom, and who should be making a payment?
The Beauty in Right Now: An Interview with Poet Kailande Cassamajor
A Gathering Together's Jaminnia R. States interviews featured poet Kailande Cassamajor.
Returning to A Small Place
A Small Place is Kincaid working out the continuation of that ongoing modern myth, of how her homeland, once her Eden, was disfigured after her flight from it.
Welcome to the Melancholy Jungle
I prayed that she wasn’t dead as I questioned my desire to pray in such a haunted state.
Wisdom Calls/the points of knives/grandpapa and holy spirit dance like no one’s watching
the people watchred-eyedoccupiedscratching an ungodly itchwith the points of knives
I Love it When Black People Ask “How You Livin’?”
It’s the permission we call a prayer to live at all... and not just do.
Witch’s Brew: Wayétu Moore’s She Would Be King
Moore gifts all with new eyes, new legends—ones through which founding myths can and will be unsettled.
To Mother Unsaved/Women Crossing Lines
falling sun shadowing your face/is your blush the stain of your
Family Heirlooms/The Gathering Waters/Vacation Dichotomies/I Started Writing You This Poem in the Perennial Aisle at Home Depot
this is the same river ancestors looked for guidance in
Great-great-great Granddaughter
Pale and wrinkled from lye soap-ridden water, these hands held pinched nerves in back...