Hair: Black Feminine Haircare Division
by Ciara Miller Both Gwendolyn Brooks and Carolyn Rodgers address the impact of Black beauty culture on Black women’s perception of self within their poems. According to Robert L. Boyd’s article “the Great Migration to the North and the Rise of Ethnic Niches for African American Women in Beauty Culture and Hairdressing, 1910-1920”, few studies…
Emerging from Silence by Randall Horton
With the release of his new book of poetry, Hook, we revisit Randall Horton’s essay “Emerging from Silence,” which was published in Mosaic #22, Summer 2008.
Baltimore Submissions
Call for Submissions on Baltimore/Ferguson Mosaic Magazine seeks previously published essays focused on the racial & economic inequalities that continue to affect Baltimore, MD
The African Renaissance by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
In the past two years, African literature has undergone a renaissance of attention. Articles in the New York Times and The Guardian have noted the growing number of African literary stars;
Best Books of 2014
BEST BOOKS OF 2014 by Clarence V. Reynolds Freelance editor and literary arbiter Clarence V. Reynolds reads five books per day, or was that per month.
Best Books of 2013
After 365 days of nonstop reading, writer and editor Clarence Reynolds has whittled his best books down to an exquisite nine titles. Let us know if you think he’s forgotten a book or two.
Reconstructing Autobiography in the Borderlands: Essay
Reconstructing Autobiography in the Borderlands: Anzaldua at the Liminal Edges of Identity by Sushma Joshi Originally published in Mosaic #10, June 2001 Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands: La Frontera is a book that transcends all boundaries of genre and style. A text that includes poetry side by side with fragments of mainstream history, and intermixes them with…
