Naomi Jackson: Interview
by Arlene M. Roberts Labor Day in Brooklyn is synonymous with the West Indian American Day Parade,
Nathan McCall: Interview
Inner City Blues, Twenty Years Later by La Juana Green Crime is increasing Trigger happy policing Panic is spreading God Knows where we’re heading It makes me wanna holler Marvin Gaye – 1971
Saeed Jones: Interview
by Danielle A. Jackson Prelude to Bruise is an airtight collection of visceral and stunning poems that coalesce into a narrative about Boy, a young, black gay man who leaves a stifling birthplace and abusive family dynamics for a freer life in a cosmopolitan city. A survivor of family violence, Boy brings his history with him,…
Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva: Interview
by Beatrice Lamwaka Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva is dedicated to her Africanness. A Ugandan writer and mother of two, she dared to found Babishai Niwe (BN) Poetry Foundation
Wendy S. Walters: Interview
by Justin Allen How might sonnets about a suburb’s past incite conversations on racism? While poetry may seem inadequate to many at achieving this feat, Wendy S. Walters’s Troy, Michigan
Chinelo Okparanta: Interview
by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn “Some of my strongest memories of place today are still my memories of Nigeria. In my mind I can still see the road to my primary school, and I can tell you the placement of the headmistress’s office, and the patch of dusty earth where we stood for morning assemblies, or…
Ifeona Fulani: Interview
by Celesti Colds Fechter Ifeona Fulani is a Jamaican-born, black British writer and scholar who received her B.A. in English Studies at the University of Nottingham, England. Fulani received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, an M.A. in Comparative Literature, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at New York University, where she is Faculty in the…
