“When a woman tells the truth, she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.” —Adrienne Rich In Maafa (Fence Books, 2020), Harmony Holiday crafts a surrealistic tale employing iconography and symbolism from the African and African-American experience, creating a utopian, feminist allegory based, apparently, on the myth of Ulysses. A dancer, writer, archivist, … [Read more...]
Clara B. Jones interviews poet Reuben Jackson
Each month I attend a poetry reading at Zed's Cafe in Silver Spring, MD. Reuben Jackson, poet, jazz scholar, educator, and archivist, was the featured speaker on October 4th and, before he had completed the introduction to his third poem, I knew that I was in the presence of a person and a poet worth taking very seriously. His brief poems revealed an infectious, gregarious … [Read more...]
Residual sonnets by Mark Young, reviewed by Clara B. Jones
Residual sonnets by Mark Young / ma press [Finland] / 2019 / 100 pages / $5.00 Residual [re-sid-ual] Adjective: remaining after the greater part has gone “'Bricolage,' more than anything else, is the term I would use to best describe my poetry.” Mark Young Mark Young is an internationally-recognized writer—creator of vispo and text-based poetry. He also is editor of … [Read more...]
