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January Gill O'Neil
January Gill O’Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University, and the author of Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2012-2018, she served as the executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, and currently serves on the boards of AWP, Mass Poetry, and Montserrat College of…
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Mendi Lewis Obadike
Mendi Lewis Obadike makes literature, art, and music. She is the author of Armor and Flesh (2004), which won the Naomi Long Madgett Prize from Lotus Press. With her husband Keith Obadike, she composed The Sour Thunder, an Internet Opera and curated Crosstalk: American Speech Music (both from Bridge Records, 2004 & 2008). Their conceptual media artworks have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the New Museum,…
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Jadi Omowale
Jadi Z. Omowale is a writer, publisher, and teacher. She is co-owner of Three Sistahs Press, LLC an upstart, womanist publisher of books by women of color. She has had poetry published in Temba Tupu! Africana Women’s Poetic Self-Portrait, Essence magazine, Cave Canem Anthologies 2003 and 2004, Welter, and the Black Review. She is a Cave…
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Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa
Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa is currently completing an MFA in Poetry and an MA in African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is a Cave Canem, Callalloo and Lambda Literary fellow. Her poetry and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Some Call it Ballin, Matter, Crab Orchard Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere.…
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