SHIPS IN HOUSTON by Nadia Villafuerte, translated by Julie Ann Ward, is a harrowing and heartrending collection of fifteen stories that bring to life characters who, though they exist independently from one another, inhabit the same world: Mexico’s ...
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OBSIDIAN’S GENDERQUEER/GENREQUEER PLAYGROUND, guest edited by Ronaldo V. Wilson, is a living testament to how trans, genderqueer, and non-binary poets, writers, and artists, are on the leading edge of innovation in literature and art while also figh...
OBSIDIAN’S HEIRLOOM: PRESERVING HBCU FUTURES celebrates the brilliance and legacy of US-based, historically Black colleges and universities OBSIDIAN’S HEIRLOOM: PRESERVING HBCU FUTURES, guest edited by Sheree Renée Thomas with associate editors Dan...
OBSIDIAN’S RADIANCE features four folios celebrating writing and arts of the African diaspora. Fiction folio “Radiant Youth: Stories of Light & Darkness,” edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, explores and reveals what it means to be a child and how the ex...
While it may be true that art cannot redeem the flaws of our deleterious society, it can often reveal more anodyne alternatives nested neatly inside the familiar. Such is the vision of Ryan Clark’s ARIZONA SB 1070: AN ACT, a homophonic translation t...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. African & African American Studies. Art. Music. OBSIDIAN'S WHAT TELL FREEDOM NOW offers three folios from editors Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, Khanyisile Mbongwa, and Douglas Kearney. Celebrating the ingenious work...
Fiction. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Drama. African & African American Studies. Afrofuturism. "When you chose to alter the history and ideology that has and continues to oppress you, you choose the path of a creator," writes special issue guest edi...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Sade LaNay's HÄRTE is a straightforward and deliberate book of questions that—through generative translation and transceptual writing—cajoles readers to reconsider what can be gleaned from the brevity of inn...
Poetry. Film. "By turns heady and heartfelt, sardonic and spectral, INFRASTRUCTURES, the second book of poetry by Elizabeth Hatmaker, has all the hallmarks of a cult classic. In its pages, the poet interweaves images of Chicagoland with Midwestern i...
Poetry. Bill Morgan's debut poetry collection, THE ART OF SALVAGE, finds value—sometimes even treasure and joy—in unpromising materials. Exploring themes including sexuality and the aging body, the beautiful and jarring intricacies to be found in un...