Kimbilio Fellow Renee Simms (’13, ’15) anchored a panel at AWP 2016 in Los Angeles on the subject of black writers in a white world. JADED IBIS published an extended version of her introductory remarks. Where Writers of African Ancestry in America Find Themselves There has never been a consensus or even a plurality agreement […]
Renee shared excerpts from this story at the 2015 retreat (see featured image). Applications for Kimbilio Fellowships are now open. Meet Behind Mars Renee Simms Dr. Lutz, You’ve requested that I write a statement to the school board about The Night of the Yellow Mustard Penis, and I’ve tried to pull together all of the evidence that […]
CORNROWS Lydia took the rat tail end of the comb and slid it over her daughter’s scalp. The hair’s thickness reminded Lydia of the blue wildrye that Rochelle had braided in the woods behind the domestic violence shelter where they currently lived. “Public art,” Rochelle had said about the closed lotus formation that emerged in […]
THIS WILD LIFE The children wriggled and cursed in the old SUV, summoning me to exhortations about proper car-riding behavior. “Y’all know better!” I warned. I turned down whatever music was playing. I did these things while I watched traffic conditions on 30th street, which, if you’re traveling east in Tacoma, has a precipitous, San […]
Check out these pictures of our talented Kimbilio Fellows from our first ever Kimbilio Retreat this past summer…more to come! And thanks to Amina, Renee, Desiree, and Diana for capturing these memories on film!
