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Postcards to the Future: A Protest in Place / LEGACY  Erica Hunt interview Erica Hunt was interviewed by Dr Stephanie Troutman, at Tucson’s KXCI Community Radio Congress Street Studio in October 2018 when she and three other contributors to the anthology, Letters to the Future: Black Women / Radical Writing (including co-editor Dawn Lundy Martin, …

Sonia Sanchez and Lucille Clifton in Conversation  with Eisa Davis, 2002 This excerpt is from the transcript of a conversation jointly sponsored by Cave Canem and the New School, which was the first in an ongoing series of evenings with Cave Canem. Originating in 1996 as a vision of a retreat to support African-American poets, Cave Canem is a vital …

In this poem by Harryette Mullen, the idea of Legacy is presented through the historic violence of dispassionate bureaucratic language, the policies of oppression, and slippages of their true significance. Through this form of text, Mullen outlines historical oppression of vulnerable people, with emphasis on the African diaspora.    We Are Not Responsible  by Harryette …

In this poem by Yona Harvey, the idea of Legacy is underscored not only through oppression but the enduring spirit of Black womanhood in power connecting to her primordial spirit.    The River Wanderer by Yona Harvey There was a river turned to   Goddess.      Was kin to river turned to Flame.   As …

Excerpts from Erica Hunt’s introduction to Letters to the Future: Black Women / Radical Writing. Angle, Defy Gravity, Land Unpredictably By Erica Hunt The future is a slippery project. What can it hold? We asked writers to write about it, imagining the future as the present conjugated—conjoining the past, the present with some other time. Don’t writers …