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Cheryl Boyce Taylor: Interview
A Mother’s Duty: An Interview with Caribbean Poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor by Mercy Tullis-Bukhari Towards the end of a New York summer, I met with poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor for some conversation about womanhood, motherhood, and poetry. I had known Cheryl for several years. When I entered the poetry world professionally, her name was already floating in…
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Audre Lorde Lesson Plan Workshop
Presented by Mosaic Magazine/Literary Freedom Project at the Laundromat Project, 920 Kelly St. Bronx, NY Free Event • Click here to RSVP Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) described herself as a “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” A champion for the liberation of all dispossessed people, Lorde concentrated her activism in the struggle for freedom for…
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Audre Lorde: Lesson Plan
Mosaic supplements its print issues with lesson plans developed for high school educators. Each demonstrates how Mosaic’s content can help empower educators to use books, writing, and reading to engage students. The lesson plans supplement most issues of Mosaic. Click here to download. Designed by Eisa Nefetari Ulen Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) described herself as a…
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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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Charles Stephens & Steven G. Fullwood: Lambda Literary
Charles Stephens & Steven G. Fullwood: A Conversation on Joseph Beam and ‘In the Life’ Click here to read this interview in its entirety on http://www.lambdaliterary.org Our forthcoming anthology Black Gay Genius: Answering Joseph Beam’s Call (Vintage Entity Press, 2013) was born out of a series of conversations, panel discussions, debates,