Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze (1956-2021)
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze died on August 4, 2021. Her work as a dub poet and great performer is legendary. Less so (though no less deserving) is her turn in her later writing to a number of narrative, lyrical poems that celebrated what she called “the simple things of life.” Unabashedly …
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Radicle: An Interview with Fred D’Aguiar
Fred D’Aguiar is a celebrated British-Guyanese poet, prose writer, playwright, and Professor of English at UCLA whose career has spanned 35 years. D’Aguiar’s many accolades include earning a Guyana Prize for Literature and being shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. As a writer, …
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Radicle: An Interview with Kerri Arsenault
The impetus for creation is often thought to be love: divine love, parental love, the blessings of cheerful muses. However, love, in all its squidgy warmth, was not the radicle of Kerri Arsenault’s premier book, Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains. Arsenault grew up in rural Mexico, Maine in the …
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Radicle: An Interview with Hala Alyan
The radicle of Hala Alyan’s writing career sprouted in the sixth grade, after the first full book she ever read. In this interview, Hala and I explore this genesis and discuss the various roots and branches her writing has developed since. It includes four award-winning poetry collections and two stunning …
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gemini
The wrinkled dome which houses this land is a lithograph. Lightning splinters it. A reproach. Two years and a day after we recited cities, I watch you leave with her, the carnival-haired lovely, with her 2020 vision and deliciously filthy mouth, and my chest is a torrent of mint leaves. …
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