Magazine. The first issue of BRONX BIANNUAL features writing from Donnell Alexander, Federico Anderson, Tish Benson, Dana Crum, Michael A. Gonzales, KRS-One, Michael C. Ladd, Ferentz LaFargue, Reginald Lewis, Adam Mansbach, Caille Millner, muMs, Greg Tate, and Saul Williams. Bronx Biannual is the most important literary journal in hip-hop America. Consider Bronx Biannual an urban Paris Review, or McSweeney's Quarterly Concern from a hip-hop standpoint. The journal will publish new writing--fiction, essays, reportage, interviews, poems--twice a year. The intention is to publish both celebrated and unsung writers on a variety of subjects germane to the black aesthetic. Urbane urban literature: bourgeois yet boulevard. No guiding manifesto per se, no set format. Like XXL magazine edited by Rhodes Scholars at Oxford or Vanity Fair edited in the South Bronx at the Point.

Miles Marshall Lewis was born in the Bronx in 1970 and currently splits his time between New York City and Paris, France. He is the author of "Scars of the Soul" (Akashic, 2004), and is a former editor of Vibe and XXL. His work has been published in The Nation, The Source, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Essence, and other publications.