


“Meta-cognitive and openhearted, this book offers itself as a kind of instruction manual for how one might identify structures in writing and in the world that are designed to limit access, rather than grant it-as well as how one might resist and reinvent them.”- American Poets Crosslight turns all its voltage on this relationship between the privilege we may mistake for freedom and the oppression it is in fact.”- Kenyon Review

Wadud’s poems restore sense to those regions of ourselves that have been numbed by privilege, which under capitalism and (neo)colonialism is only ever the temporary and partial suspension of a deeper oppression. “In an age of attenuated imagination, of diminished attention, Crosslight for Youngbird might be a lifeline-offering a kind of spiritual transfusion for the weary, the boxed-in, the blinded. The show will air on April 27.Īsiya Wadud | Nightboat Books | 9781937658878 | October 2018 Real History of the Assassination of Robert F Kennedy (FeralĪmerican History TV. Lisa Pease, author of A Lie Too Big to Fail-The Moves Through (Coffee House Press), was interviewed in Newcity Chicago’s April issue. T Flesichmann, author of Time Is the Thing a Body Sophie Hughes Coffee House Press) was interviewed by Sounds Varley O’Connor, author of The Welsh Fasting Girl (Bellevue Literary Press)Īlia Trabucco Zerán, author of The Remainder Kevin Allred, author of Ain’t I a Diva?: BeyoncéĪnd the Power of Pop Culture Pedagogy (The Feminist Press at CUNY) In the spring issues of the Southern Review and Two Mui Poopoksakul The Feminist Press at CUNY) were excerpted Celia Hawkesworth Open Letter) was interviewed in Asymptote’sĭuanwad Pimwana (trans. Of Color Redefining the Term ‘All-American’.”Įllen Elias-Bursac Open Letter) and American Fictionary Tyehimba Jess (Wave Books), and Nepantla: AnĪnthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color edited byĬhristopher Soto (Nightboat Books) on its April 18 list of “30 Books By Writers Mia Ayumi Malhotra (Alice James Books), Olio by List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen (BOA Editions), Isako Isako by Farley, author of Around Harvard Square (Akashic Books/Black Sheep) compiled a Book Notes playlist for Largehearted Boy on April 17.īy Myriam Gurba (Coffee House Press), When I Grow Up I Want to Be a

Nina Revoyr, author of A Student of History (Akashic Books), was interviewed on Los Angeles KPFK 90.7’s Bibliocracy Radio on April 21.Ĭ.J. (The Feminist Press at CUNY), on April 10. Wright, and Sight Lines byĬlub published exclusive preview of Emily Carroll’s When I Arrived at the Castle The World by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press), Castingĭeep Shade: An Amble by C.D. On April 17, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Forest Gander recommended Song for the Unraveling of
