-
Mosaic 15
06/2005 The Wonderful World of Tony Medina Poet and educator Dr. Tony Medina talks with Cave Canem fellow Jacqueline Johnson about the current state of poetry. Original Notes of A Native Son James Baldwin’s friend and editor Sol Stein talks of their early days at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, NY. E. Poet,…
-
Raquel Rivera: Interview
Raquel Rivera Reflects on the Latino Connections to the Origins of Hip Hop by Ron Kavanaugh
-
Mosaic 13
04/2002 Profile Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon Nelly Rosario The Black Arts Movement Reviews Break Any Woman Down by Dana Bryant Envy of the World: On Being a Black Man in America by Ellis Cose Ghost of a Flea by James Sallis Glow in the Dark by Lisa Teasley Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black…
-
Criminal Minded: Chester Himes
This article was originally reprint in Mosaic #11, September 2001 Criminal Minded Before Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead or Valerie Wilson Wesley there was Chester Himes. His novels have been signatures of Black crime noir novels. by Michael Marsh Himes’s approach to his first vocation, and his later writing, was simple and direct. In November 1928,…
-
Mosaic 11
09/2001 Country Grammar Poet Nikky Finney talks about her southern roots and the poetry she writes. by Tara Betts Criminal Minded Before Walter Mosley, Colson Whitehead or Valerie Wilson Wesley there was Chester Himes. His novels have been signatures of Black crime noir novels. by Michael Marsh Assata Revisited Exiled in Cuba, Assata Shakur‘s shadow…
-
Nikky Finney: Interview
Nikky Finney, daughter of civil rights workers, sees herself playing with the hottest, blue tongue of the flame as a witness with a pencil to the struggles of Black people and her family in the South. Documentation of these struggles represents the bulk of her poetry collection, Rice (Sister Vision Press, 1995), and also finds…
-
Caribbean Women Writers by Marcia Douglas: Essay
Originally appeared in Mosaic #9, June 2000 In the late 1980s, upon learning about a forthcoming conference profiling the work of Caribbean women writers, Jamaica Kincaid asked, “Are there many of us?” The conference was the 1988 First International Conference of Caribbean Women Writers
