From the Granum Foundation Website: Congratulations to Kima Jones, winner of the 2022 Granum Foundation Prize. Kima Jones’s writing has appeared nationally in GQ, Guernica, Poets & Writers, and McSweeney’s. Her short story, “Nine,” received notable mention in Best American Science Fiction 2015, and her hybrid poem, “Homegoing AD,” appears in Best American Nonrequired Reading […]
Who Carries the History?: The Millions Interviews LaToya Watkins
Lalita Rattapong’s New Microwave I’m having trouble with Lalita Rattapong’s new microwave, issues with distance. Like, can the neighbors feel the universe fold in on itself whenever she reheats leftover panang? Do they hear time collide, past in present, echoes from a world older than the one they thought they knew, screeching in […]
Perhaps this sounds like Saunders has reached his old prophet stage and is yelling truths from a carved stone tablet, but it is not that at all. Saunders remains allergic to the polemical. In the past, sitting down to didactically write about things that angered him led to failed stories, he says. Saunders, who describes […]
A Black Woman’s Search For Her Place in White, White Vermont When I moved to Burlington, Vermont in 2015, I thought I knew what I was signing up for: too much snow, not enough black people, and a just-right amount of maple syrup. I decided I would try to live there for 1,000 days […]
BUT DID YOU DIE By Shinelle L. Espaillat Shreds of winter sliced the March morning as sunlight struggled to pierce the clouds. Mellen pushed herself to keep running up the hill, though each muscle fiber screamed and her breath came in hard, hitching explosions. Behind her, an angry rottweiler closed the distance, its owner barking […]
Jonathan Escoffery on Navigating Identity, Blackness, and Literary Fame Join Kimbilio online and in person @Left Bank Books on September 12, as we celebrate the publications of IF I SURVIVE YOU and Fellow LaToya Watkins PERISH. https://www.left-bank.com/event/kimbilio-w-lbb-presents-jonathan-escoffery-and-latoya-watkins
