Summer 2014

Interviews
Chinelo Okparanta by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn
Ifeona Fulani by Celesti Colds Fechter

Poems
Where Are the Soldiers by Keisha-Gaye Anderson
Blessed Dance by Keisha-Gaye Anderson
Tidal Wave by Keisha-Gaye Anderson
Ancient (for Tish Benson) by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie
Sovereign (for Gil Scott-Heron) by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie

Excerpt
“On Ohaeto Street,” Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta

Review
Saint Monkey by Jacinda Townsend

Around Town by photographer Marcia E. Wilson

Mosaic Lesson Plans
Piri Thomas’ Down These Mean Streets
Lesson plan for high-school educators
by Brooke Allen

Mosaic’s lesson plans give high-school educators ways to connect literature to history and social studies while also serving to increase the importance of books and reading.