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Anthology: Volume 8

The breadth, the ballad, the sonic structure of 20.35 Africa: Anthology of Contemporary Poetry Vol. VIII spans generations and defiantly plants itself in rich soiled pastures of won and lost kinship. Portals elevate rabbits to goddesses and cancers slow deaths to afterlives.

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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

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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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Laurène Southe

Laurène Southe is a 25-year-old writer of Congolese heritage based in Vienna, Austria. She has works in Brittle Paper, The Shallow Tales Review and the African Migration Report Poetry Anthology. During the Vienna Design Week in 2024, she performed her poems at the “A House is Not a Home” exhibition by curator and mentor Tonica Hunter. She’s also a 2023 Alumni of the Echo Correspondence writer residency where she wrote and finished her full-length collection, Child of Congo.

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