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Anthology: Volume 7

Each poem gifts us something better: the struggle to find identities, relations, meanings, and the struggle for a language that can do heavy lifting. Many of the poems grapple with the meaning of family and connection with others, with what we can find in God and what may be needed of us to answer that call properly.

Read Conversations

Anena and Sarah

The Ideal Writing Life: Exploring our Relationship to Subject Matter, Writing Rituals, and the Academy | Ber Anena and Sarah Yanni

In the past few years, I’ve written less “about” my identity and more about larger questions concerning themes like legibility, history, gender, queerness, memory, and myth and my identity is simply informing that work, and the way the language unfolds. – Sarah Yanni

Read Interviews

Recommitment to the Unruliness of the Erotic – An Interview with Kemi Alabi

Against Heaven only troubles the idea of faith when it requires obedience to oppression and estrangement from the self. It pushed me, and hopefully the reader, to consider what liberation – and faith in one’s liberation – actually feels like in the body.

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Naomi Nduta Waweru

Naomi Nduta Waweru, Swan XVIII, writes her poems, short fiction and essays from Nairobi, Kenya. Her writing has been published in Lolwe, The 2023 Best Spiritual Literature Anthology of Orison Books, The Weganda Review, Ubwali, The Tribe, Poetry Column-NND, Clerestory, Down River Road, Pepper Coast Mag, Olney, Paza Sauti and elsewhere. She made the 2023 Kikwetu Flash Fiction Contest longlist, is a Best of the Net Nominee, an alumnus of the Nairobi Writing Academy as well as the Ubwali Masterclass of 2024. Reach her on Twitter and Instagram @_ndutawaweru.

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