2024/12 Cheryl Clarke – Four Poems
Poet, critic, and activist Cheryl Clarke was born in Washington, DC. She earned her BA from Howard University and her MA and PhD from Rutgers University. Clarke recently published Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems (2024) and is the author of five collections of poetry: Narratives: Poems in the Tradition of Black Women (1983), Living as a Lesbian (1986), Humid Pitch (1989), Experimental Love (1993), and By My Precise Haircut (2016), which won a Hilary Tham Capital Competition. She wrote the critical study “After Mecca”: Women Poets and the Black Arts Movement (2005), and a volume collecting her poetry and prose was published as The Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke, 1980–2005 (2006).
Clarke served as editor for Conditions, an influential journal of lesbian feminist literature. Many of Clarke’s most influential essays, including “Lesbianism: an Act of Resistance” and “The Failure to Transform: Homophobia in the Black Community,” first appeared in landmark publications such as This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981) and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983).
All of Clarke’s writings advocate for queer communities of color, paying attention to the social implications of language and labels and the possibilities of art and activism to stage resistance to dominant culture.
Clarke was an influential administrator and teacher at Rutgers for more than 40 years. She founded the Office of Diverse Community Affairs and Lesbian-Gay Concerns, which became the Office of Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities, and retired as the Livingstone Dean of Students in 2013. For her service to LGBTQ communities, Clarke received a David Kessler Award. She currently lives in Hobart, New York, where she owns and operates Blenheim Hill Books with her partner, Barbara J. Balliet.
2024/11 Yi Wei – THIS MANIFESTO IS A PROJECTION
Yi Wei is a writer unconditionally supportive of Palestinian resistance and liberation. Her work has been awarded or placed for the Frontier OPEN, the Lois Morrell Poetry Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, the Sappho Prize for Women Poets, Best of the Net, the Lorraine Williams Poetry Prize, and the Writer in the Public Schools fellowship at NYU. She is currently editing at Asian American Writers' Workshop.
2024/10 Ryan C. Clarke – NOR’EASTER IN BLUE (BIRD CHANGES)
Ryan C. Clarke is a tonal geologist from the southerneastern banks of the Mississippi. His work in the field of expanded earth science proposes counter-architectures of sociality based on the deltaic processes that built the land his home resides on. His writings and lectures have been published by E-flux, Rhizome, Terraforma, Harvard, and Dweller Electronics where he is a co-editor.
2024/09 Abiba Coulibaly – KINOPOLITICS
2024/08 Ladin Awad – Read: Anger
2024/07 Octavia Bürgel – A Play on Words
2024/06 Taha Afefe – First Letter To My Mother
2024/05 Tiana Reid – I Hear a Noise
2024/04 Issy Wood – Saturday 4th February
2024/03 Oisín Roberts – An Email From Sunday, Describing Saturday
2024/02 raphaëlle red – (STANDING IN) THE WAY
2024/01 Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro – Hegemon
2023/12 andriniki mattis – SONGBOY
2023/11 Pear Nuallak – ESEA FOLKS 4...?
2023/10 Amalia Tenuta – Glowbades
2023/09 Racheal Crowther – The Eternal Pursuit of the Unattainable
2023/08 Rosa-Johan Uddoh – REGISTRATION - Notes after Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes
2023/07 Waj Hussain – Brutal Lust
2023/06 Jaakko Pallasvuo – The Body of A Painting
2023/05 Chloe Filani – A Lady Of The Night, A Victorian Tale
2023/04 Daisy Thomas – If luck ever comes, let it be backdated
2023/03 Aliaskar Abarkas – Falling
2023/02 Carlos Mauricio Rojas – EL BOSQUE CARDINAL THE CARDINAL FOREST
2023/01 Kasra Jalilipour – AGATHA'S REVENGE
2022/12 Isaac Kariuki – Pop, Dip and Spin
2022/11 Kondo – Orange
2022/10 Johanna Owen – Diogenes, 21st Century
2022/09 Olivia Douglass – New Light
2022/08 Alice Theobald – IL Y AURA (THERE WILL BE); THE LINES
2022/07 Ingrid Banerjee Marvin – Private Investigator
2022/06 Yaniya Lee – MUNIMENT ELEVATION
2022/05 Ellie Hoskins – BROKEN LITTLE THINGS
2022/04 El Salem – The Chase
2022/03 Amy Ching-Yan Lam – Protection
2022/02 Gelare Khoshgozaran – That The Sunset Is A Lie
2022/01 Moya DeYoung – Green Car
2021/12 Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley – After They Did It
2021/11 Matilde Cerruti Quara – EMPTINESS IS THE RESTING PLACE
2021/10 Audrey Ryan – Buried, Alive
2021/09 Gabi Davies – CISLESS
2021/08 Odie Spinelli – Friends and Comrades:
2021/07 Mark Schoenfeld – A Million Miles Off
2021/06 Pete MacHale – Born Actor
2021/05 Tanaka Fuego – SWEETBITTER/BITTERSWEET
2021/04 Jamie Steedman – One Flew Over The Seagull's Nest (And Stayed For A Rave)
2021/03 leah coughlan – her visceral interior
2021/02 Lizzie Homersham – Dear Kleptomania
2021/01 Hassnat Sikander & Jon Edgley – SAFAR
2020/12 George Nesbitt – Time Capsule: Celebrating 20 Years of Sugababes
2020/11 Elif Saydam and Maxi Wallenhorst – Very Caterpillar
2020/10 Rhea Dillon – DONALD DAHMER
2020/09 Yasmine Akim – Personal Issues Surrounding Notions of Status
2020/08 Onyeka Igwe – Shit, Another Love Poem
2020/07 Róisín Tapponi – The Sea More than Moaned
2020/06 Miranda Shutler – The Daydreamer and the House
2020/05 Saucy Sez (Sarah Smith) – Most People Prefer Lies
2020/04 Elise Wortley – Have You Ever Listened to a Waterfall Until You No Longer Hear It?
2020/03 Jasmine Gibson – Only Shallow
2020/02 Hava Carvajal and Maz Murray ‘The Right Lube’ – Gender Capitalism
2020/01 Tingying Ma 马汀滢 – 1993, Roster Year
2019/12 Lisa Selby and Elliot Murawski @bluebaglife – Gin-dependent Woman / It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Crackmas
2019/11 Rene Matić – For Every Year of my Life
2019/10 Alix Jean Vollum – Wish List
2019/09 Son Kit – Anthro Piscine War Machine / Appendix I&II
2019/08 Georgina Tyson – Prosicute
2019/07 Bella Milroy – It Smells Just As Sweet (A Rose Of A Different Name)
2019/06 Lætitia Paviani – Dawn & Dusk
2019/05 Claudia Pagès – Take Root Nena, Take Root
2019/04 Sondria – RANU
2019/03 Adrianna Whittingham – Applist
2019/02 Hatty Nestor – I Hadn't Met Chelsea in Person
2019/01 sabrina soyer & Lisa Robertson – Per joi que d’amor m’avegna
2018/12 Kerry Campbell – Curatorial Practice and Social Class: Challenging a Culture of Exclusion
2018/11 Chanel Vegas – London Seriously, Kill Me More
2018/10 Douglas Kearney – Over Deluxe AF
2018/09 Gjergji Shkurti – One White Contact Lens
2018/08 Caspar Heinemann – Nothing Else But
2018/07 Cara Levine – This Is Not A Gun
2018/06 Punch Viratmalee – Fatima, A Foot Play, Fatima
2018/05 vei darling – GODDESS I
2018/04 James Lawrence Slattery – Love 2 Hate You: Jouissance Between Identity and Capital
2018/03 The White Pube – B2B OBJ// SUBJ// ECTIVITY
2018/02 Porpentine Charity Heartscape – The Maximum Softness Capable of being exerted by all Machinery
2018/01 Daisy Parris – Now That I'm A Person
2017/12 Harmony Grunge –
2017/11 Georgia Anderson – Oral History
2017/10 Penny Goring – Notes For Damaged Gods
2017/09 Sarah Gail – Love Letters I Never Sent
2017/08 Adam Gallahger – 2) Extrajudicial Killing 5) What did I do to deserve this?
2017/07 Aaron Lehman and Thomas Laprade – Vats of the Storied Sun
2017/06 Hans-Christian Dany – When The Present Moment Gets Lost In The Desert
2017/05 Ruth Angel Edwards – Insurrection Sunrise / A New Light on the Emergency
2017/04 Tiziana La Melia – Mouth Wash
2017/03 Liv Fontaine – Selected Performance Texts And Thoughts On Sluttery And Fuckery
2017/02 James Loop – In The Apartment Of Divine Love
2017/01 Rosanna McNamara – Productive Mimesis and Parler-Femme: A Theory Towards Becoming A Siren
2016/12 Audrey B – Contradictions
2016/11 Harman Bains – The Bathroom Cabinet
2016/10 Benjamin Edwin Slinger – A Nationalist's Semiotics
2016/09 Laura Morrison – The Burning Of The Coops
2016/08 Stacy Skolnik – Contact Call
2016/07 Artun Alaska Arasli – Apocalypse Later
2016/06 Alex Margo Arden – She Didn't Follow The Stage Directions
2016/05 Daniella Valz Gen – Naked Tangle Self
2016/04 Samuel Kenswil – If I Come Can I Bring My Kid Too?
2016/03 Skye Arundhati Thomas – Amrita Sher-Gil: The Portraits
2016/02 Erin Eck – Reflecting Pool / Your Eyes Are So Grand And Golden
2016/01 Rebecca Jagoe – Judith / Holofernes
2015/08 Emily Pope – Pri Madonna Post Madonna Embodiment
2015/07 Hatty Nestor and Hannah Regel – Corposants
2015/06 Maria Toumazou – Conversions
2015/05 A.M.Bang & Linetype – Lovely Little Hostages
2015/04 Niclas Riepshoff – Hinoki
2015/03 Chloe Stead – Summer
2015/02 Ivna Zic – Die Menschen Passen Nicht In Die Landschaft
2015/01 Simon Speiser – Inside The Lacuna
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