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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.

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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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Mugabi Byenkya

Mugabi Byenkya is an award-winning writer of poetry, prose, essays, drama, comics, and songs. His writing has been published in Carte Blanche, Best Canadian Poetry, and Skin Deep, among over 35 other publications. He has been interviewed on Voice of America, NTV Uganda, and Urban TV and other media outlets.