Adisa Vera Beatty – Mosaic Literary Magazine

Dark Room Collective: Essay

By Sharan Strange When James Baldwin died in 1987, a group of Cambridge, Massachusetts housemates—among us, aspiring writers and filmmakers—made a pilgrimage to his funeral in New York. It was winter and typically dreary when we heard, and though we were stung by the news of death, we felt a sense of urgency, a need to…

May 12, 2013

Essay

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Mosaic 27

Issue 27 09/2011 Interview Tiphanie Yanique by Kim Coleman Foote Tara Betts by Nicole Sealey John Murillo by Adisa Vera Beatty Excerpt “The Saving Work” from How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Tiphanie Yanique Poetry When He Proposed by Tara Betts Belinda “Azucar” Gonzalez by Tara Betts Ode to Incense by Tara Betts Enter the Dragon/…

September 7, 2011

Issues

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Up Jump the Boogie: Review

Up Jump The Boogie John Murillo Cypher Books Review by Adisa Vera Beatty Poet John Murillo’s first collection, Up Jump the Boogie is bold and lyrical. The poems are elegies of liberation celebrating how we got by instead of lamenting death, hard times, or street life. With steady hands Murillo alternately testifies, pays homage, and…

May 26, 2011

Reviews

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