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Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Interview
“Presence to possibility”Alexis Pauline Gumbs interviewed by Tara M. Holman Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer Black feminist writer, scholar, and aspirational favorite cousin to all life, energy, and matter. She is the author of the forthcoming The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. Her recent books include Undrowned (AK Press, 2020), Dub: Finding Ceremony (Duke…
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Mosaic 43
This issue of Mosaic is Black. And queer. It is blackickty-Black and queer AF. Mosaic: Black/queer/lit explores the tender, luminous skin between Blackness and queerness, and it seeks to touch that skin. It wants to find the places where our Blackness itself is—and has always been—queer. It wants to hold the spots where queerness and…
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One Book One Bronx: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Each week, One Book One Bronx hosts restorative conversations related to gentrification, social justice, women’s empowerment, criminal justice, and racial inequality. Discussions reflect the borough’s racial, economic, and gender demographics and build bridges to engagement while (re)sparking a love of books. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, 206 pgsThe Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s first…
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Review: Death, With Occasional Smiling by Dr. Tony Medina
by Alan King Growing up, my mom hammered Jesus into me and my siblings. But she didn’t know about the Jesus whose stomping grounds were “on 110th Street & Lexington Avenue/ In the crusty eyelash of El Barrio.” (from “Dame in Traguito”) This Jesus—without “an accent over the e” because he didn’t need it for…
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Matthew Shenoda: Interview
A Space for Creatives in 21st Century Activism An Interview with Matthew Shenoda by Negesti Kaudo What is the role of art, literature, and creative writing in today’s society, especially with concerns to activism, politics and social justice? The intersection of art and activism within the literary and creative writing communities is on the rise with…
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John Keene: Interview
by D. Scot Miller John R. Keene was born in St. Louis in 1965. He graduated from the St. Louis Priory School, Harvard College, and New York University, where he was a New York Times Fellow. A longtime member of the Dark Room Writers Collective of Cambridge and Boston, and a Graduate Fellow of Cave…
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Emerging from Silence by Randall Horton
With the release of his new book of poetry, Hook, we revisit Randall Horton’s essay “Emerging from Silence,” which was published in Mosaic #22, Summer 2008.
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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,…
