My Sisters’ Country by Alexis Jackson
Philly Poet Debut, A Womanist Mixtape of Multivocal Sister-Songs Alexis V. Jackson’s My Sisters’ Country Publication date: Jan. 31, 2022 …
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 …
Postcards to the Future: JOY / Tisa Bryant
Finally, in two sections, Tisa Bryant underscores the meaningfulness of teaching, creating, making work, making meaning for ourselves and those under our care. We are part of a community with psychic/psychological understandings, scars, wounds and words. Radical Black women make extraordinary work. There is joy to be found in that acceptance, in continuing this tradition …
Postcards to the Future: JOY / giovanni singleton
In giovanni singleton’s mesotic, we see a specific source of joy for the writer, the luminous transcendental life and creation of musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane. Alice Coltrane: A Mesotic, by giovanni singleton …