Rion Amilcar Scott (’13) in Conversation with Roxane Gay

Rion Amilcar Scott (’13) Interviewed in Maudlin House

Kimbilio Advisor Natalie Baszile in LENNY

Down Wind When my father was fifteen he packed his clothes in a cardboard suitcase, and, over his mother’s tearful objections, caught the bus from Elton, his tiny hometown in the heart of South Louisiana’s rice country, across the border to Port Arthur, Texas, a port town at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico. […]

Tyrese Colemen (’16) in the Brevity Race Issue

Deesha Philyaw (’15) in the Brevity Race Issue

Tope Folarin (’15) Robert Irwin and African Fiction

I DIDN’T KNOW MUCH about Robert Irwin’s work when I wandered into the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden a few weeks ago. I knew that he was a contemporary of a few other artists I admire, James Turrell among them, and that he was the first artist to win a MacArthur Genius Grant in 1984, […]

Jamie Moore (’14) is Writer of the Month at DRUNK MONKEYS

A Beating, A Prayer After they took the body of my friend away, I lost my ability to move. They’d left the twisted sheet he hung himself with, still tied to the curtain rod. The noose taunted me, its wide mouth ready to claim another black body. My father thought the Word would save us. […]

Brandon Taylor (’16) on Writing the “Other”

Rion Amilcar Scott (’13) on the Recurring Characters of Edward P. Jones

When a Character Returns Edward P. Jones connected recurring characters through his short stories, providing a blueprint for one writer. From Catapult Woodrow and Rita Cunningham’s fifteen-year-old daughter Elaine left home after arguing with her father about the boys she entertained in the house while her parents were away. I turned the pages of “A […]

Jeffrey Renard Allen on the Radio in Australia

2015 and 16 Kimbilio Faculty Member Jeffrey Renard Allen Interviewed by ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)