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ISSUE #17 1.07
The
Healing World of Lucille Clifton
With Hurricane Katrina still heavy
on her heart, poet Lucille Clifton sat down with Jacqueline
Jones LaMon to discuss life, death, and poetry.
Marlon James
First-time novelist Marlon
James chats with Felicia Pride about his novel, John Crow’s
Devil, and the influence Jamaica has had on his work.
Let There Be Peace, Let There Be Life
Nigerian-writer
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reflects on her award-winning novel
Purple Hibiscus and discusses future literary work with A.
Naomi Jackson.
A Diva Supreme
Poet and activist
Suheir Hammad met with poet (and former student) John Rodriguez
to talk about politics, and her new book of poetry Zaatar
Diva.
Reviews
Bearing Witness:
Not So Crazy in Alabama by Carla Thompson
Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani, The Last Friend
by Tahar Ben Jelloun,
Paradise Travel by Jorge Franco
Excerpt
John Crow’s Devil
by Marlon James
Poetry
"Watching Mary Walk
Through The Front Door" by Toni Asante Lightfoot
"laveau’s sojourn" by LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
Click here to read contributor bios
Winter
2006 #16
Thomas
Sayers Ellis
A poet, educator, and self-proclaimed "genuine negro hero" to the
heart, Thomas Sayers Ellis did the QandA thing with Penny Dickerson.
Total Life Is What We Want
Poet Sharan Strange reflects on the history
and lasting influence of the Dark Room Collective.
Linton
Kwesi Johnson
Nancy Rawlinson finds the legendary Jamaican dub poet has no interest
in mellowing with age.
Reviews
After Mecca: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement by Cheryl Clarke
Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
by Michael Eric Dyson
The Language of Saxophones: Selected Poems of Kamau Daáood
Let the Lion East Straw by Ellease Southerland
Limbo by Sean Keith Henry
Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the
New Reality of Race in America by Bakari Kitwana
Zorro by Isabel Allende
Summer 2005 #15
Issue fifteen brings it
to the roots. For all of its seven years Mosaic has called the Bronx
home. In this issue we focus on poets who were born here or, as
in the case of James Baldwin, spent formative years in the borough
of hills.
Poet and educator Dr. Tony Medina talks with Cave Canem fellow
Jacqueline Johnson about the current state of poetry. +
James Baldwin’s friend and editor Sol Stein talks of their
early days at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, NY. + E.
Ethelbert Miller slowed down just long enough to discuss poetry,
scholarship, and Howard University. + Boogie Down Productions
> Five Bronx poets featured in the book, Shout Out + more.
Winter 2004 #14
Interviews: Bakari Kitwana
"The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African
American Culture; Raquel Rivera, "New York Ricans From the
Hip Hop Zone", breaks down the culture in Black and Brown; Dr.
Todd Boyd, The New H.N.I.C: The Death of Civil Rights and the
Reign of Hip Hop; and actress Camille Yarbrough talks about
her life and prolific career.
Love and War Three literary stallwarts revisit America’s battle-fatiqued
history. Essays by Haki Madhubuti and Yusef Komunyakaa. Dialogue
between Amiri Baraka and Bill O’Reilly.
Spring 2002 #13
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Nelly Rosario,
the Black Arts Movement, Break Any Woman Down by Dana Bryant,
Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America by Ellis Cose,
Ghost of a Flea by James Sallis, Glow in the Dark by Lisa Teasley,
Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America
by John Johnson, The Red Moon by Kuwana Haulsey, This Bitter Earth
by Bernice Mcfadden, Song of the Water Saints by Nelly Rosario
Digital issue not available.
Winter 2002 #12
Interview: James Earl Hardy
Article: Gwendolyn Brooks Writers' Conference
Article: Anthologies
Interview: Joyce Palmer Greenwichtown
Excerpt: Greenwichtown
Reviews Approaching the Center
by Myronn Hardy; Bird At My Window by Rosa Guy; Chester Himes: A
Life by James Sallis; Erasure by Percival Everett, The Fire of the
Origins by Emmanuel Dongala; Here’s To You, Jesusa by Elena Poniatowska;
Juice by Renee Gladman; Living with Music: Ralph Ellison’s Jazz
Writings by Ralph Ellison; My Grandmother's Erotic Folktales by
Robert Antoni; A Negro Explorer At the North Pole by Matthew Henson
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy;
Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life
by Jabari Asim; Soledad by Angie Cruz; Turning South Again: Re-Thinking
Modernism/Re-Thinking Booker T. by Houston Baker
Digital issue not available.
Fall 2001 #11
Poet Nikky Finney
Chester Himes
Profile: The Autobiography of Assata Shakur
Reviews: A Fool ’s Paradise by Nancy Flowers Wilson, Bloodroot by
Aaron Roy Even, The Day Eazy-E Died by James Earl Hardy, Desirada
by Maryse Conde, Further to Fly: Black Women and the Politics of
Empowerment by Shelia Radford-Hill, Honky by Dalton Conley
Summer 2001 #10
Interviews: Mat Johnson, Major Jackson, Sharrif
Simmons
Features: New Bookstores, Independent publishing
Profile: Robert Fleming
Reviews: The Big Mango by Norman Kelley, Slapboxing with Jesus by
Victor LaVelle, Kin by Crystal Williams, Popular by Thierry LeGoues
Digital issue not available.
SUMMER 2000
#9
Books on Muhammad Ali by Ron
Kavanaugh, Interviews: Bernice McFadden, Myrlin Hermes,
and Bil Wright, excerpts: Sugar, Careful What You Wish For,
Sunday You Learn How To Box, profile: Julia de Burgos by Tracy Grant,
Caribbean women writers by Marcia Douglas, Rone Shavers on the novel
Tuff by Paul Beatty
SPRING 2000: #8
The Souls of Black Folk: we profiled nine writers who will make
a difference in what we read for years to come: asha bandele,
Brian Keith Jackson, Glenville Lovell, Shay Youngblood,
Natasha Tarpley, Philippe Wamba, Joan Morgan-Murray,
Farai Chideya, and Nikky Finney. Interview: Marci
Blackman "Po Man's Child" by Akilah Monifa. Excerpt: Po Man's Child.
black literary rebirth
Reviews: The Debt: What America Owes To Blacks by Randall Robinson,
Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism by Walter LaFeber,
Understanding the Tin Man: Why So Many Men Avoid Intimacy by William
July, Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English by John Russell Rickford
& Russell John Rickford, Walking the Dog by Walter Mosley
FALL/WINTER 1999 #7
Interviews: Breena Clarke, Willie Perdomo, Roger
Bonair-Agard, Reggie Gibson, and Kevin Powell.
Profile: Third World Press by Nichole Shields
SUMMER 1999
#6
Grace Edwards,
Eleanor Taylor Bland,
The NAACP's Crisis Magazine,
Colin Channer, Poet Stacyann Chin, Elizabeth Nunez,
Loida Maritza Perez, R.M. Johnson.
The Myth of Solitude: No Writer Is An Island by Kalamu ya Salaam
SPRING 1999
#5
E. Lynn Harris,
bell hooks,
Guy Johnson
Lee Meadows
Latino literature by Evangeline Blanco
three writers who, throughout this century, have spoken to their
generation:
James Baldwin by Kalamu ya Salaam,
Zora Neale Hurston by Leah Mullen,
Farai Chideya by Cynthia Ray.
Excerpts: Abide With Me by E. Lynn Harris and Standing at the Scratch
Line by Guy Johnson.
Poetry: Loving You is
Church by Tara Betts, Among Women by Nicole C. Kearney
WINTER 1998
#4
Sonya Sanchez,
Kimberla Lawson Roby,
Camika Spenser,
Mars Hill.
Profiles of Ann Petry and Nkiru Books, The Writing Business
by Pat Houser, Speak Dis! by Tony Medina, The Struggle for Visibility
of African American Women's Literature by Dorothy Harris. Excerpt
of The Moaners' Bench by Mars Hill. reviews of
Assault on Paradise by Latiana Lobo,
Blue As the Lake by Robert Stepto,
Blue Light by Walter Mosley,
Don't Explain by Jewell Gomez,
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Dandicat, and more
Digital issue
not available.
FALL 1998
#3
How Writers Get Agents,
Excerpt: Song of Night by Glenville Lovell,
Fall Preview,
Paul Laurence Dunbar,
Sandra Lee Gould by Renee Michel
Nalo Hopkinson by William Ashanti Hobbs III
Colson Whitehead by Akilah Monifah
The Mystery of Gayl Jones by Kelly Howard
Getting Published:
How to Get There From Here by Herbert Stern
The Domain of the Sisters by Omar Tyree,
Reg e. Gaines,
African American Book Clubs by Pat Neblett
Reviews
A Hope In the Unseen by Ron Suskind
SUMMER 1998 #2
Content
Sheneska Jackson by Pat Houser
Jessica Care Moore by Lynne d. Johnson
Telling Our Stories Ourselves by Dorothy Harris
Why I Write by Kathleen Morris
The Literary Life: Write On by Mo Fleming
Lorraine Hansberry by Lynne d. Johnson
Reviews
Pride by Lorene Cary
In Another Place, Not Here by Dionne Brand
Ella Baker by Joanne Grant
If God Can Cook You Know I Can by Ntozake Shange
Nothing But the Rent by Sharon Mitchell
The Healing by Gayl Jones
Roberts vs. Texaco by Bari-Ellen Roberts
The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
Blanche Cleans Up by Barbara Neely
The Itch by Benilde Little
SPRING 1998 PREMIERE
ISSUE
Excerpts from the book Men We Cherish - Kiini
Ibura Salaam and Brooke Stephens,
Eric Jerome Dickey interviewed by Pat Houser.
Louisiana's Black Writers by Rosa Lili.
The Literary Life by Mo Fleming. Excerpt from All American Dream
Dolls by David Haynes Caribe by Evangeline Blanco, A Stranger In
My Bed by Kevin Luttery, and Blue by Eric Nisenson
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Writer
Jabari Asim gives his opinion on the artistic use of the
word "nigger." The discussion took place on Oct. 6, 2007 during
the Capital Bookfest in Largo, MD.
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