American

The relationship between Africa and African America has long been mediated through language, memory, rupture, and imaginative return towards home. Across the long history of the Black Atlantic, poetry has served as one of the most intimate vessels through which these crossings are felt, remembered, and reimagined. It is for this reason that Édouard Glissant […]

See, I’m full of the blues, holy water too – Preacher Boy At the time of death, legendary Delta blues musician, Robert Johnson, was only 27. He had disappeared quietly, so quiet that the world did not hear a word about it until nearly three decades later, when a researcher stumbled upon his death certificate […]