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Postcards to the Future: A Protest in Place
Postcards to the Future: A Protest in Place / LEGACY July 6, 2020 Kore Press is closed for the month of July as we do every year. However, because of the intensity of activist movements for the freedom and safety of Black people occurring into the summer, we didn’t want our website and other public …
Postcards to the Future: LEGACY / Erica Hunt interview
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, …
Postcards to the Future: LEGACY Sonia Sanchez
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 …
Postcards to the Future: LEGACY Harryette Mullen
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 …
Postcards to the Future: LEGACY Yona Harvey
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 …