Massachusetts Review
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A 200-page quarterly of fiction, poetry, essays, and visual art by emerging and established authors since 1959. Whiting Literary Magazine Prize winner.
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Thank you to Massachusetts Review for the space to write about the "connection between the racial capitalist, material extraction of the Caribbean by the Global North, and the extraction of Caribbean thought by white Westerners and Global North scholars". massreview.org/node/12119
"It is ludicrous that keynote speakers for a party campaigning on freedom and democracy would be silent about the genocide in Gaza." Interlink Publishing's Michel Moushabeck on the silencing of Gaza: massreview.org/node/12129
"I expect you would be surprised that your death affected me so much, that I spoke at two services for you, that I am writing about you now." An epistolary post from Sejal Shah to Jim Foley: massreview.org/node/12131
For #LaborDay, re-upping this clarion call from Sex Workers’ Union, published in Massachusetts Review ten months ago. "We call upon our fellow trade unions to heed the call of Palestinian trade unions... As workers, united, we must take action for the liberation of all oppressed peoples."
"Across the span of sixty years, it is clear that the testimony of witness and experience unsettles power and those who submit to it." Check out our latest post on Our America blog, ‘Testifying at the Democratic National Convention’ by Willow Naomi Curry 🇵🇸🔻
"It illuminates our powerlessness in negative space, but it also affirms the irreducible core of our freedom" -We share Public Affairs Editor, Shailja #FreePalestine Patel's poem 200 days after Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire. massreview.org/node/12137
"Hamer’s Southern Black vernacular, her size, and her deep blackness likely made the top guns of the Democratic Party rest even easier: who would really pay attention to her?" - Read Willow Naomi Curry 🇵🇸🇭🇹🔻 in Massachusetts Review on Hamer testifying at the DNC in 1964 massreview.org/node/12135
"I would love for my ashes to be scattered in a free Palestine." - Aaron Bushnell "A democracy is supposed to serve the will of the people. Take the power back. Free Palestine." - Matt Nelson Read "Abecedarian for those who burn" on Massachusetts Review massreview.org/node/12137
The Massachusetts Review new issue features my translation of Basque writer Mónica Crespo's (Mónica Crespo) dark fairytale, "The Offering". This is the 3rd tale from "The Secret Mothers" to appear in English, #SeekingAPublisher. DM me. #Shortstory #translation massreview.org
“My mother / is the author of eight breasts. / None of my sisters / have the philosopher’s taste / for martyrdom, the mechanic’s taste / for oil, the aerialist’s taste / for release from the dress of gravity.” —Bob Hicok, “The roots of geometry” Massachusetts Review Copper Canyon Press