Yall. Whut?
It’s December. My brain is fried. No drugs. How did we even?
Thanks for being here. This newsletter is a light for so many reasons I won’t be able to capture it all in this one letter, but I will try. Grateful for the honor of putting this newsletter together. In a world that continually tries to edit (read: erase) people like us, it’s beautiful to have space to share these necessary voices and points of view. Here’s the roundup:
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lucky 7/11 — on those pages you’ll find two incredible ekphrastic by the luminous Calvin Walds who allows us to look at Beauford Delaney’s work with him as he reflects in the archives
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Randa Jarrar warms us up on p. 8 with her evocative prose
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feeling seen and complicit as usual thanks to Roberto Montes on p. 14 with the latest (and timeless) poetry world GRIEVANCES
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and then boom: TWO ART FEATURES on p. 14 and p. 19 — just go straight there, not telling you what they are, I will just say they are THE BEST
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p. 22 kicks off our reviews where John Rufo enlightens and entices again with their selections
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and finally, an interview with Carina del Valle Schorske you will read and read — on the importance of intersectional translation — and so much more.
Always a pleasure.
Happy 2019. Blessup.
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ps. peep that cover! thanks, Stacy!