Thursday, March 03, 2016

Again with Feeling: BOMB Magazine at MoMA PS1

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On February 28, I had the pleasure of participating in  Again With Feeling , a public conversation with poet and friend  Tonya Foster  that...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Sophia Nguyen on the Dark Room Writers Collective in Harvard Magazine

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A few years ago, The New Yorker published an article, "The Dark Room Collective: Where Black Poetry Took Wing," about the Dark ...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Black Literary Avant-Garde Syllabus At ND Site

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From Isaac Julien's  Looking for Langston A month or so ago on Facebook, I casually mentioned that I'd taught an undergraduate ...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

New York Times' "Unpublished Black History"

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A young Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., high school basketball star at Power Memorial Catholic during the Catholic High School Athletic As...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Safia Elhillo Winner of 2016 Sillerman Prize + Poem

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Safia Elhillo ( Busboys & Poetry ) The African Poetry Book Fund , in conjunction with the journal Prairie Schooner , has named poet...
Friday, February 12, 2016

GRIND Now Published!

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Earlier this week I learned that the little art book project, GRIND , that I collaborated on with photographer Nicholas Muellner this past...
Monday, February 01, 2016

Happy Black History Month & Langston Hughes Day

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Langston Hughes by Carl Van Vechten, 1936 Happy Black History Month! February 1 is also the birthday of Langston Hughes  (1902-1967),...
Sunday, January 31, 2016

Bomb Magazine 2016 Recommendation: Clarence Major

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Recently BOMB Magazine   offered me and other writers and creative types the opportunity to share my thoughts some of the many books we...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Who Runs the Publishing Industry?

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UPDATE : Jonathon Sturgeon  has just posted a piece on  Flavorwire   comparing the publishing industry to the Motion Picture Academy of Art...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Art & Context Interview with Mendi + Keith Obadike

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In addition to being friends  Mendi + Keith Obadike  are among my favorite contemporary artists. At one of their online sites , BlackArt...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Kobus Moolman Wins 2015 Glenna Luschei Prize + Poems

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Kobus Moolman  (b. 1964), a South African poet, playwright, and author of five individual collections of poems and two collections of pl...
Friday, January 22, 2016

Oscars Whiteout (Again)

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Who really cares about the Oscars? Clearly some of us care about the Oscars. Should we care about the Oscars? Should we care about the fa...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Gukira on Claudia Rankine's *Citizen: An American Lyric* & "microaggressions"

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A week ago I posted about two standout examples of literary criticism, a young Barack Obama's super-concise reading of T. S. Eliot ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Amidst the Notes: RIP Pierre Boulez & David Bowie

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Pierre Boulez, by Carlo Bavagnoli I've been of two minds about the recent deaths of two leading figures in the world of music, Pier...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr & Eslanda Goode Robeson, Schomburg Center digital collection “And one day we must ask the question...
Friday, January 08, 2016

Counternarratives Featured on Howard Rambsy's Culture Front

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Photo from Cultural Front (© Howard Rambsy II) UPDATED : Cultural Front  has added two new posts, " John Keene's 'Acrobat...