Just over a decade ago, when I was an intern with Colorlines magazine (now Race Forward), my main task was to help build the framework for “Drop the I-Word” — a campaign to change journalistic copy-editing conventions across the U.S. We sought to have The Associated Press (AP) and news outlets cease using the word “illegal” to describe…

TITLE:  TERRA INCOGNITA AUTHOR: Adebe DeRango-Adem PUBLISHER: Inanna Publications 2015 ISBN: 978-1-77133-217-0 Reviewed by Candace James of Canadian Poetry Review TO READ THE REVIEW CLICK HERE.

@adebe_ so pleased. Do pursue your heart’s desire. Wishing you much luck and fulfilment in journeying towards your dreams x — Amma Asante (@AmmaAsante) June 2, 2014

My keys from the Chelsea Hotel.  I never found out who might have been there before me.  I later fantasized about sneaking into the same suite in a future time, for fun, but never went through with it.  Now the hotel is being torn down to the ground, the ghosts of Ginsberg et al. are rampant.…

After months of organizing and reading and emailing and editing and proofreading and laughing and hair-pulling and everything else that happens when you put a book together, on behalf of me and my co-editor, Andrea Thompson, I would like to finally present our book, Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out.  It has finally been published…

While studying English in Oxford for the month of July, miles from home and in another world altogether, I was contacted by the University of Wales who announced that my new book of poems, Ex Nihilo, has been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. There I was, sitting in my room in Exeter College, navigating…

Monday, June 28–Saturday, July 31 The 18th Annual Poets House Showcase Ten River Terrace New York, NY Opening Reception: Monday, June 28, 6:00-8:00pm On view: through July 31 during regular library hours My book, Ex Nihilo, will be showcased in New York City for the 18th Annual Poets House Showcase, June 28-July 31, 2010. Poets…

To my dear friends far and wide, Many of you (with gratitude) have been asking me where to go to purchase my new book of poems, Ex Nihilo.  I don’t have everyone’s personal email, so here’s the deal: The book is making its way across bookstores this summer, and should be available in local bookstores…

“The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature is astonishment, and astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. The mind is so entirely filled with its object that it cannot entertain any other, nor reason on that object which fills it.…

I remember you like a sea an artifact of beauty I could rationalize in bones, the décolletage of a fish such a composition etched into me like a second skull, the Red Sea calling ancestors in a play of shadow and light upon water that caused me to recede I remember receding into new anatomical…