UMPH! PROSE SEEKS SUBMITS

City narratives (prose poetry, flash fiction, etc.) wanted for first issue of new online journal U.M.Ph.! Prose. Get ‘em in soon. I’m ready to roll!
Check guidelines first, then submit to umphsubmits@yahoo.com.
http://umphprose.com

Black History Month Series (IV)

Q: What’s wrong with being labeled an African-American poet?
A: Not a thing–if the writing (and/or poet) primarily has an African-American focus.
African-American poets and Black American poets are not necessarily the same thing. The majority of my poetry very much reflects my being a woman. I am indeed always Black, but most of my [...]

Black History Month Series (III)

Q: Why is “different” still a dirty word?
A: Because of the normalcy fantasies of the skin privileged.
I am not a member of mainstream-, middle class-, Judeo-Christian-, WASP-modeled society. That is one of the major differences between being a “truly multicultural artist” and being “a multiculturalist.” Multiculturalists are usually skin privileged, thus [...]

Black History Month Series (II)

Q: What does it mean, really, to be a multicultural writer?
A: I write as I live, through all of my valued private and public traditions and experiences…as an American. There’s no pie chart for my cultural percentages, and 9 times out of 10, the Black part is not open for discussion.
Blackness is a [...]

Black History Month Series (I)

In honor of Black History Month and the impending publication of my first collection of poems, which are autobiographical, I will be posting a series of personal essays.
Q: What does it mean to be Black, and multicultural, and a woman writing into the 21st century?
A: It’s a race, class, gender tale of [...]

Multiculturalism: One Black Poet’s Experience-Pt.2

July 9th, 2007 by makingpoetry
Removed for publication consideration

Face-ism: One Black Poet’s Experience-Pt.1

June 25th, 2007 by makingpoetry
Removed for publication consideration