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  • Dark Room Collective: Essay

    By Sharan Strange When James Baldwin died in 1987, a group of Cambridge, Massachusetts housemates—among us, aspiring writers and filmmakers—made a pilgrimage to his funeral in New York. It was winter and typically dreary when we heard, and though we were stung by the news of death, we felt a sense of urgency, a need to…

    May 12, 2013
    Essay
    17 minutes
  • Brooklyn Moon -For One Night Only

    by Ron Kavanaugh Thursday, March 8, 2012 – There’s no going back. The 90s poetry scene, laden with promise, talent, and camaraderie has been displaced by motherhood, mortgages, and tenure. But for a moment, the scene, which was originally centered at Brooklyn Moon Cafe, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and numerous other closet-sized spots with three tables…

    March 12, 2012
    Around Town, Essay
    4 minutes
  • 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…

    February 26, 2012
    Around Town, Elders
    1 minute
  • 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…

    May 26, 2011
    Interviews
    9 minutes
  • Willie Perdomo: Interview

    If it’s a by-product of what you do and you take it in stride that’s alright.” He prefers to experience his work as a journey and not get caught up in an image of himself. “Sometimes you can’t deal with it though,” he continued about being a poet. At times he said, he feels like…

    November 27, 1999
    Interviews
    4 minutes
  • 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…

    September 6, 1999
    Back Issues
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