Let me try again, now from Kafka: Time is short, my strength is limited . As an angsty Pan-Africanist teenager, I recited Thomas Sankara’s quote like a mantra to ward off all the -isms the world thrust upon me: You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. i made it up. Her poetry is included in the Jalada “Afrofuture(s)” and “Language” issues, and the Black Girl Seeks anthology. This is my revolt. Alexis Teyie is a Kenyan writer and feminist. The Time Is Now offers weekly writing prompts in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction to help you stay committed to your writing practice throughout the year. We survive, we wiggle through by subtle manoeuvres, we shape into a kind of life what we have been handed, and we dare to invent grander worlds. here on this bridge between. And my rebuttal is Otherwise! What is more celestial than building a world backwards into the past, upwards or downwards in the present, forward into the future? In the daydream, time and space as we know them collapse. Otherwise as a state, as landscape, as an orientation, is evocative for me, and for the past few months has become a twisted source of consolation. Bring the literary world to your door—at half the newsstand price. Organizations based in California, New York State, as well as in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Seattle, New Orleans, Tucson, and Washington D.C., are welcome to apply for support from the Readings & Workshops program for their literary events. Now available: The Poets & Writers Guide to Publicity and Promotion, The Poets & Writers Guide to the Book Deal, The Poets & Writers Guide to Literary Agents, The Poets & Writers Guide to MFA Programs, and The Poets & Writers Guide to Writing Contests. Let the world know about your work by posting your events on our literary events calendar, apply to be included in our directory of writers, and more. I want to loosen this world’s grip on my heart. In Kenya “Otherwise?” used to be a common way of acknowledging others, and you’d overhear it frequently, particularly in Nairobi. Hear from the editors of Poets & Writers Magazine as they offer a behind-the-scenes preview of the new issue, talk with contributors and authors featured in the magazine, and discuss the lighter side of writing, publishing, and the literary arts in this decidedly DIY podcast. Reading her poem “The Emperor’s Deer,” which she first wrote for Michael Brown, she asked the audience to hear it as mourning for the recently murdered Stephon Clark. I still am. Anathema: Spec from the Margins is a tri-annual speculative fiction magazine featuring work by Queer/Two-Spirit People of Colour/Indigenous creators. Support for Readings & Workshops in Atlanta is provided by an endowment established with generous contributions from the Poets & Writers Board of Directors and others. Research newspapers, magazines, websites, and other publications that consistently publish book reviews using the Review Outlets database, which includes information about publishing schedules, submission guidelines, fees, and more. Learn more about this program, our special events, projects, and supporters, and how to contact us. I can’t overstate how much imaginative energy we expend to do so, to think otherwise, to will an otherwise into being in a world predicated upon profiting from our labour while simultaneously denying our value. what did i see to be except myself? Everywhere, even inside me. report a missed issue; contact us. Watch videos, listen to audio clips, and view slideshows related to articles and features published in Poets & Writers Magazine. I was disappointed, hurt, dispirited, and so on, but not particularly stunned. From 1985 interview with Swiss Journalist Jean-Philippe Rapp, used in: Sankara, Thomas.

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