Rachel Eliza Griffiths: Interview
BY OPAL MOORE I have two copies of Miracle Arrhythmia (2010 Willow Books). I bought one; the other is signed, a gift to me by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Somehow I don’t remember exactly how we met. Was it Kyla Marshell, poet and (at the time) Spelman College student and editor of Aunt Chloe: A Journal…
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…
Shauna Morgan: Interview
Audre Lorde said, “speak the truth as I see it” whether it is pretty or not, painful or not. I’ve been told that I can write dagger poems—words that can be hurtful. So sometimes I am a bit apprehensive about the truth being revealed and how it’s coming through. But at every moment I write…
Rosamond S. King: Interview
by Anton Nimblett I sat down with Rosamond S. King in her Brooklyn home. Outside, pale-green pollen from hundred-year-old trees dusted the pavement as evening light played games with bright leaves. Inside, after warm flatbread and spicy curry, we sipped herbal tea and talked about Rock | Salt | Stone, her debut poetry collection from…
Nicole Sealey: Interview
by Kyla Marshell Throughout Nicole Sealey’s debut poetry collection, Ordinary Beast, there’s an idea that repeats and reverberates: death. The inevitability of our collective demise—and all the beauty we make “with our brief animation” (“Object Permanence”)—is the impulse that animates these poems. “Give me tonight to be inconsolable,/so the death drive does not declare//itself, so…
Hook: A Memoir by Randall Horton: Review
by Roberto Carlos Garcia In his latest book, Hook: A Memoir, poet Dr. Randall Horton demonstrates how the choices he made throughout his life made him the man he is today. Horton went from a promising college freshman at Howard University to part time drug hustler, to big time drug importer, to struggling and homeless…
Clint Smith: Interview
Clint Smith: Du Bois, Lineage, the Zombiepocalypse, and the Role of the Writer in Difficult Times by Elizabeth Acevedo With the recent release of his first collection of poetry, Counting Descent, Clint Smith and I had a chance to discuss his new book and his role in literature as a writer and researcher. Not only…
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InterviewsJohn Keene by D. Scot MillerAmina Gautier by Julia Brown ReviewsThe Sellout by Paul BeattyReviewed by Sidik FofanaThe Fishermen by Chigozie ObiomaReviewed by Sidik Fofana Short FictionWhat Matters Most by Amina Gautier Lesson PlanJames Baldwin by Eisa Nefertari UlenMosaic’s lesson plans, developed for secondary school educators, demonstrate how our content can serve as a connective…
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.
