Interviews
Nathan McCall by La Juana Green
Jabari Asim by G’Ra Asim Continue reading
Issue 36
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Tag Archives: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Lighting the Shadow: Review
Reading Time: 4 minutes
Lighting the Shadow
by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Four Way Books
Khadijah Queen
“Lighting the shadow, a woman / crawls out beneath her own war.” Thus lines 27 and 28 from the first poem in the book deliver both title and theme. Continue reading
Issue 29
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Fall/Winter 2013
Interviews
William Melvin Kelley by Steve Kemme
Lorna Goodison by Clarence V. Reynolds
Ayana Mathis by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn Continue reading
Pear-blossoms and Mule-eyes: A Review of Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ Mule & Pear
Reading Time: 8 minutes
Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ Mule & Pear: Review
By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
This review first appeared in Cerise Press Vol 4. Issue 10
The black woman is “de mule uh de world.” So says the world-wise and work-weary Granny, Janie’s grandmother in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. In making this now famous declaration, Granny not only has her say on black women’s place in global history; Continue reading
Walter Dean Myers: Interview
Reading Time: 13 minutes
The Transitional Voice of Walter Dean Myers by Ozioma Egwuonwu
Originally appeared in Mosaic #22 August 2008 Continue reading