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Patricia Spears Jones
by Rochelle Spencer Patricia Spears Jones is the recipient of the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize About a month after 9/11, National Book Award recipient Lucille Clifton, in a reading at the New School with the poet Sonia Sanchez, shared a personal work-in-progress about the attacks –the powerful “a september song: a poem in 7 days.”…
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Tim Seibles: Interview
Tim Seibles by Remica Bingham-Risher In October 2012, Tim Seibles finally got a bit of his due. His latest book of poems, Fast Animal, was nominated for the National Book Award, putting his work in the spotlight for the national audience many agree it deserves. When Tim Seibles fell headlong into poetry as an undergraduate…
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Afaa Michael Weaver: Interview
Afaa Michael Weaver by Randall Horton I first became familiar with Afaa Michael Weaver while immersed in an MFA program at Chicago State University through his poetry collection Talisman.
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Gerard H. Gaskin: Interview
by Justin Allen In 1993, photographer Gerard H. Gaskin embarked on a journey that would take him to various U.S. cities and into a subculture of queer , predominantly Black and Latino individuals known as the ballroom scene. These nighttime pageants are unique for gender-explorative categories, elaborate make-up and costumes, boisterous energy, and the sharp…
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A Lit Mag Dedicated to Arts of the Diaspora | The Review Review
A Lit Mag Dedicated to Arts of the Diaspora Interview with Ron Kavanaugh—Editor of Mosaic
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J. California Cooper: Interview
by Kimberly Collins J. California Cooper has plenty to say about life. She is, after all, the matriarch of the blues. A Berkley, California native, Cooper now lives in Portland, Oregon. She began her writing career as a playwright. During that time, her work caught Alice Walker’s attention who suggested that she turn her plays into stories.…
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Opal Palmer Adisa: Interview
Healing Words: an Interview with Opal Palmer Adisa by D. Scot Miller Dr. Opal Palmer Adisa is a literary critic, renowned storyteller, author of thirteen books, and tenured professor at the California College of the Arts. She also does workshops on writing, using literature to examine sexism, racism, and homophobia. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… This interview originally appeared in Mosaic…
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Chinyere Evelyn Uku with Thomas Sayers Ellis
An Interview with Chinyere Evelyn Uku by Thomas Sayers Ellis The cover image of Thomas Sayers Ellis’s Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems features Ellis’s own black-and-white photograph of Chinyere Evelyn Uku, an African woman from Nigeria who has albinism. On the release of the paperback edition of Skin, Inc., Ellis conducted an interview with Uku about…
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Edward Kelsey Moore: Interview
by Clarence V. Reynolds with Linda A. Duggins Reflected in the best writing is a resonance of humanity—which resides in all of us—that eventually transpires and stays with the reader long after the last page has been turned and the book has been placed on a bookshelf or added to a stack of favorites. This…
