Culture
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Poetry Spotlight: Ansel Elkins
WOMAN WITH THE SEVERED ARM i At dawn she leaves the house in her field coat, the skinny hound on the porch follows. _______The fog...
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The Global Imagination of James Baldwin
This interview between Sean Jacobs, professor and founder of the blog africasacountry.com, and Rich Blint, was first published at the interviewer’s site and appears here...
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London Diary
It’s a chilly spring weekend in London, although the cold this time of year is not unprecedented, and tourists by the busload descend on Piccadilly...
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Spotlight Poet: Ladan Osman
For the Woman whose Love is a Bird of Passage————- I am so poor before you. A grackle / whose colors are as good as...
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Music Spotlight: Diallo Hall Introduces Singer Liz Ogumbo
By Diallo Hall Music has been central to the very existence of the Luo people of East Africa since the dawn of time. Their songs...
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Featured Poet: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
The Body Deformed by Tidal Forces — Darkness still here, hunkered against the trees. / Spring so uneasy this year. / No matter morning’s boundary...
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Artist Spotlight: Ines P. Rivera Prosdocimi
Untitled 2011 Oil 20” by 20” La Mecedora #2 2009 Oil 40” by 40” Ghana 2008 Mixed Media 35” by 48” Ines P....
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Featured Writer: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
from “A Strange People” We-Chrissie will let the white men see and touch our difference. She will smile for doctors and handlers like Mrs. Susan’s...
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The Defiant One: Euzhan Palcy
By Trica Danielle Keaton For Joanne and David Burke, with thanks and appreciation. Marlon Brando, Susan Sarandon, Donald Sutherland, Gérard Depardieu and the controversial American...
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Birds of Different Feathers
By Patricia Friedrich I have to confess that it was with some trepidation that I took my family to see the new animated movie Rio....
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Spotlight Poet: Nicole Sealey
Underperforming Sonnet Overperforming ————–FOR MARILYN NELSON This poem, this time, is the best idea / I’ve ever had—the best in history / even, the best...
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A New Branch of the United States’ Miscegenated Family Tree: Lynn Nottage’s "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark"
By Soyica Colbert Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s new play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark opened at the Second Stage Theatre on April 6,...
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A Message from the Editors
The Feminist Wire appreciates and respects the many voices that contributed to last week’s events. We are particularly pleased with the expeditious, cross-gendered, cross-generational, and...
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Featured Poet: Donika Ross
The Yard On the grounds between history and science, Nelida and I walk, two slips of girls, lovely analogies of each other. See our books,...
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Artist Spotlight: Larissa Mogano, Photographer
Photography by Larissa Mogano “Morning Mist on Eucalyptus” c. 2009, taken in San Diego, CA (location undisclosed), with Canon digital EOS Rebel XTi “Checkered Past”...
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Shayne Lee, Your Revolution Will Not Happen Between These Thighs: An Open Letter
Since writing my review of Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture, entitled “Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes,” originally written for Palimpsest: A...
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Erotic or Thanatic?: Black Feminist Criticism on the Ropes
Reprinted from Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, with SUNY Press. Update: Final copy now available in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender...
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Featured Poet: Destiny O. Birdsong
Prenuptial Agreement Everyone’s angry at me—even your mother, And no one understands why it’s necessary If we’re going to stand before God and say forever—...
