Alexis V. Jackson Interview
Ari Schill interviewed poet Alexis V. Jackson this past fall on Zoom to talk about poetic practice and the back …
Letters to the Future: Future / M NourbeSe Philip
The Declension of History in the Key of If, and Extensions of Time and Place, by M. NourbeSe Philip Here, M. NourbeSe Phillip’s considers the archives’ use as a prism through which the future is called upon, called to. She affirms that aliveness is not only unfixed in place/time, but patiently waits in folds to be …
Postcards to the Future: Future / Adrienne Kennedy
Adrienne Kennedy In her supple and sincere commitment to words and their worlds, Adrienne Kennedy asserts the profundity of the first impression of words as meaningful onto the child’s mind. – Tracie Morris letter to sixteen year old It is crystal clear a person has to be in love with writing. writers culture. in order to …
Postcards to the Future: Future / Lillian Yvonne Bertram
The Dream World is a place she can reach through her own body by Lillian Yvonne Bertram “In this section Lillian-Yvonne Bertram engages the slippages between poetics, literary criticism and philosophy to consider the framing of the “negro’s” body as a viewed space and that this person, this negro as paragon, insists upon her own …
Postcards to the Future: Future / Ruth Ellen Kocher
Skit: MLK Jr. and Lieutenant Uhura Have Coffee and Cake, by Ruth Ellen Kocher “In this speculative excerpt, Kocher conflates the foreboding assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. with the hope of a brighter, more expansive future, entrusted to Afronaut Lieutenant Nyota Uhura.” – Tracie Morris Below is an excerpt from an interview with author at KXCI …
Postcards to the Future: Future / Introduction
“A future where everyone has dignity. Imagine that.”—Erica Hunt At the cusp of the light at the end of the tunnel, what is that just ahead? Is it a healthier, more caring world? Is it stasis, just entering another variation of this room we’re stuck in around the calendar bend, or is it a new thing, something …