Down These Mean Streets: A Piri Thomas Celebration
What does it mean to be Black, Puerto Rican, and marginalized, all within your small neighborhood, within your family? In 1967, Piri Thomas’s seminal memoir “Down These Mean Streets” chronicled his life –a young man living a hard life in the streets of El Barrio, Spanish Harlem. The book would go on to become required…
John Murillo: Interview
by Adisa Vera Beatty Afro-Chicano poet and playwright John Murillo has generated a great deal of excitement and praise from the likes of Junot Diaz and Yusef Komunyakaa for his premiere collection of poems, Up Jump The Boogie (Cypher Press, 2010). Currently he is the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin…
Mosaic 7
09/1999 INTERVIEWS Breena Clarke River, Cross My Heart by Nikki TerryWillie Perdomo by Renee Michel a bona fide poet Roger Bonair-Agard by Damion Mannings a one man show Reggie Gibson by Nichole Shields random thought Kevin Powell by Cynthia Ray movin’ on up! by Camika Spencer author of When All Hell Breaks Loose first rate…
