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  • 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…

    November 28, 2020
    Interviews
    23 minutes
  • Mosaic 36

    Interviews Nathan McCall by La Juana Green Jabari Asim by G’Ra Asim Reviews Only the Strong: An American Novel by Jabari Asim It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time by Angela Jackson Trouble Sleeping by Abdul Ali Lighting the Shadow by Rachel Eliza Griffiths A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Excerpt Only…

    February 13, 2016
    Back Issues, Uncategorized
    1 minute
  • Lighting the Shadow: Review

    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.

    August 26, 2015
    Reviews
    1 minute
  • Mosaic 29

    Fall/Winter 2013 Interviews William Melvin Kelley by Steve Kemme Lorna Goodison by Clarence V. Reynolds Ayana Mathis by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

    August 9, 2013
    Back Issues
    1 minute
  • Pear-blossoms and Mule-eyes: A Review of Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ Mule & Pear

    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…

    July 14, 2012
    Reviews
    1 minute
  • Walter Dean Myers: Interview

    The Transitional Voice of Walter Dean Myers by Ozioma Egwuonwu Originally appeared in Mosaic #22 August 2008 Walter Dean Myers, perhaps the most prolific writer of African-American young adult fiction, and Mosaic contributor Ozioma Egwuonwu chat about his new book Game, as well as pulling from personal experience to establish an authentic voice for the young…

    August 1, 2008
    Elders, Interviews
    13 minutes

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