https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Callaloo. daily 1 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 18 (1995) through current issue Latest Articles: Callaloo TWO Project MUSE® Callaloo 1080-6512 0161-2492 Latest articles in Callaloo. Feed provided by Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983231 <p></p> I&#39;m a sucker for an interview. I never tire of hearing or reading people in their own words, reflecting on their lives. If someone wrote a book or a poem that stuck with me, I want to hear an inside scoop; a secret revealed, a rumor refuted or confirmed. I want to know what informed and fed them as an artist, what success and failure meant to them, and what forces stood in the way of their work. Why did they choose that word to describe the protagonist, or that place to set the crucial scene? Is the maternal character actually their own mother vaguely disguised? Was writing the novel or play how they worked through their divorce or the loss of a child? What brought them to the page, and how were they able to turn ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall Editor's Note 2026-02-21 text/html en-US Editor's Note 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 7871 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983232 <p></p> This interview was originally published by the Los Angeles Review of Books on May 31, 2013.Private, solitary, demanding, keenly intellectual, worldly and possessing a challenging wit, Charles Henry Rowell is neither easy to know nor judge. He&#39;s subsumed much of his own life (and the possibility of the limelight, however liminal, afforded creative writers) for what he believes to be the privilege of discovering, and in many cases sustaining, the broad swath of literary talent within the African Diaspora through Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts &#x26; Letters, and its myriad projects. Other enterprises include the Callaloo Creative Writers Workshop (CCWW) Rowell began for &#x22;new and emergent&#x22; writers of poetry ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall In Voluntary Solitude: An Interview with Charles Henry Rowell 2026-02-21 text/html en-US In Voluntary Solitude: An Interview with Charles Henry Rowell 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 44265 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983233 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Number 1, 1978.The following interview was taped at the home of Tom Dent in June 1973. Kgositsile had returned to New Orleans to work with him on the final issue of NKOMBO, a Louisiana-based journal.You were born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Will you talk about some of your early experiences there, particularly those which had an impact on your writing?I would say that my earliest memories go back to two very strong women&#x2013;&#x2013;my grandmother and my mother&#x2013;&#x2013;in that order. Practically everything I write is tied up with some kind of wisdom I got from them in that hostile environment. As a result, I was very disturbed when I found a lot of writers of my generation ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall "With Bloodstains To Testify": An Interview with Keorapetse Kgositsile 2026-02-21 text/html en-US "With Bloodstains To Testify": An Interview with Keorapetse Kgositsile 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 48029 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983234 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Number 6, 1979.This interview was edited from a prose transcription of a color videotape interview with Margaret Walker on April 5, 1978, sponsored by the Brockport Writers Forum, State University College, Brockport, New York. All rights reserved by the State University of New York.I&#39;ll begin by making a reference to your poem &#x22;For My People.&#x22; I noticed in a few of your poems which I selected for study this semester that the tone appears to be quite angry and hostile towards the system. Then we started reading Jubilee, and the tone changed; I detected a kind of conciliatory tone at the end. The question is, when did you change your attitude?I don&#39;t believe I&#39;ve ever ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall An Interview with Margaret Walker 2026-02-21 text/html en-US An Interview with Margaret Walker 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 24313 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983235 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Number 8/10, 1980.The following interview was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August, 1977. Fatima Dike is author of two published plays, The Sacrifice of Krele and The First South African. Stephen Gray is author of the satirical novel, Local Colour.Fatima Dike&#x2014;we always call you Fatts Dike&#x2014;With a double &#x22;t,&#x22; because I&#39;m not a carbohydrate.How old are you? Who are you?I was born Royline Fatima Dike in 1948, 13th September. I grew up in Langa in Cape Town, and was educated in Moshesh High Primary School until my standard six, and then I went to boarding school in Rustenburg in the Transvaal up to my matric. And then I went back to Cape Town and worked in a ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall An Interview With Fatima Dike 2026-02-21 text/html en-US An Interview With Fatima Dike 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 23478 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983236 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Number 34, 1988.The text which follows is an excerpt from a three-hour interview conducted on September 19, 1987, at Derek Walcott&#39;s home in Boston, Massachusetts. The entire interview will be published in a future issue of Callaloo. We are grateful to the following individuals who assisted in the transcription of this interview: Ruth Estep, Mark McClendon, and Rodney McMillian.I would like to begin this interview with your background and early poetry. Are we to read &#x22;Prelude&#x22; (1948), the opening selection in your Collected Poems 1948&#x2013;1984 (1986), as an &#x22;autobiographical&#x22; or a &#x22;confessional&#x22; poem? If so, what, then, are we to make of the following stanzas: And my ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall An Interview with Derek Walcott 2026-02-21 text/html en-US An Interview with Derek Walcott 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 35862 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983237 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Number 38, 1989.Through arrangements made by Xavier Orville, this interview was taped in Mr. C&#xE9;saire&#39;s office in City Hall, Fort-de-France, Martinique, on February 19, 1988. The interview was conducted in French (C&#xE9;saire) and English (Rowell); Veronique Robbaz served as translator. Yannick Tarrieu and Robbaz made the original English and French transcription and translation of the interview, and Suzanne Brichaux-Houyoux assisted the Editor with the final versions of the interview.In the United States we know you mainly as a poet and a playwright.The Americans know my better self.When I mention your name here in Martinique, general readers not only speak of your ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall It Is Through Poetry That One Copes With Solitude: An Interview with Aimé Césaire 2026-02-21 text/html en-US It Is Through Poetry That One Copes With Solitude: An Interview with Aimé Césaire 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 30539 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983238 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Number 38, 1989.The interview which follows was conducted in Pasadena on April 9, 1988, when Maryse Cond&#xE9; was a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology. I have added a section from Cond&#xE9;&#39;s talk and questions from the floor, recorded the day before (April 8, 1988), during the &#x22;Pan-Africanism Revisited&#x22; conference at Pomona College. The latter excerpts are identified by an asterisk in the text.How would you describe the Boucolon family&#39;s reputation in Guadeloupe?My parents were among the first black instructors. My mother was the first black woman instructor among her generation, and also the first black director of her own school for girls. When my ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall "I Have Made Peace with My Island": An Interview with Maryse Condé 2026-02-21 text/html en-US "I Have Made Peace with My Island": An Interview with Maryse Condé 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 64755 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983239 <p></p> This interview originally appeared Callaloo Number 39, 1989.This interview with Jamaica Kincaid was conducted on May 29 and June 3, 1987, in North Bennington, Vermont. It was transcribed by Cathy Boyle. This interview was conducted while Ms. Kincaid was writing A Small Place (1988). She admits to reading Selwyn R. Cudjoe&#39;s Resistance and Caribbean Literature (1980) constantly while she wrote A Small Place. Since this interview was conducted, Ms. Kincaid has published A Small Place (1988). This interview is a valuable companion piece to the latter work and Annie John. -S.R.C.Tell me a little about yourself. I know you were born in St. John&#39;s, Antigua, but I don&#39;t know when you left and so on.I left Antigua shortly ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall Jamaica Kincaid and the Modernist Project: An Interview 2026-02-21 text/html en-US Jamaica Kincaid and the Modernist Project: An Interview 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 51688 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983240 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 13, No. 1, 1990.This interview was conducted in Mr. Achebe&#39;s quarters at the International House in New York City on Sunday, May 28, 1989.Mr. Achebe, here in the United States, those of us who read twentieth century world literature think of you as one of the most important writers in this era. We view you as an artist&#x2014;and for us the word artist has a certain kind of meaning. In the African world, does artist have the same meaning as that conceptualized in the Western world? Or, more specifically, what do Nigerians conceive the writer to be?Is he or she thought of as an artist, a creator of the kind that we think of here in the United States when we speak about ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall An Interview with Chinua Achebe 2026-02-21 text/html en-US An Interview with Chinua Achebe 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 60542 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983241 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 19, No. 2, 1996.This interview took place on January 17, 1996.Mothers and daughters are a central theme in your work, certainly in Breath, Eyes, Memory and in many of the short stories. This bond seems to be the very essence of women&#39;s lives, yet it is rarely a happy one. In Breath, Eyes, Memory, Ife has a troubled relationship with both of her daughters, Martine and Atie, as does Martine with Sophie. Only in&#x22; Caroline&#39;s Wedding&#x22; does there seem to be any peace&#x2014;at least with a living mother. Are you suggesting that this most intense and defining of relationships is bound to be, at best, an uneasy one?Not at all. It&#39;s a complicated relationship even in ordinary ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall The Dangerous Job of Edwidge Danticat: An Interview 2026-02-21 text/html en-US The Dangerous Job of Edwidge Danticat: An Interview 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 28440 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983242 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 19, No. 2, 1996.This interview took place in March 1996.Your poems about childhood are particularly compelling. &#x22;Jimmy&#39;s First Cigarette&#x22; reminds me of &#x22;The Whipping,&#x22; though your poem has a slightly different twist. We often have in the Black community stories of how parents have to prepare their kids for the harsh realities of the world. Is he an urban kid?No, actually the setting of the poem is rural, which I think matters less than other issues in the poem, except to the extent that as a rural kid he might be less exposed than an urban kid to certain harsh environments, to certain earlier, and consequently perhaps, more jarring truths about life.What issues ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall An Interview with Sharan Strange 2026-02-21 text/html en-US An Interview with Sharan Strange 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 30739 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983243 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 19, No. 2, 1996.This interview was conducted via telephone on Thursday, February 22, 1996.You have added a new dimension to your writing. Already established as a poet and essayist, you have now ventured into drama. Your first play, Diva Studies, was staged by the Yale Drama School in May 1996. Does the theater offer new avenues for creation and expression not available in other genres?It absolutely does. First of all, in my poetry, I am always borrowing what I think of as poetic vernacular language. I am fascinated by the distinctly wonderful ways that people talk, particularly the ways that black people can talk. So what seems exciting about working in the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall An Interview with Elizabeth Alexander 2026-02-21 text/html en-US An Interview with Elizabeth Alexander 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 55011 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983244 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 20, No. 1, 1997.This interview was conducted by telephone on January 31, 1997, between Charlottesville, Virginia, and Los Angeles, where Ms. Butler lives.At the end of your interview with fiction writer Randall Kenan (published in Callaloo, Vol. 14.2, Spring 1991), you said, &#x22;I don&#39;t feel that I have any particular literary talent at all. It [writing] was what I wanted to do, and I followed what I wanted to do, as opposed to getting a job doing something that would make more money &#x2026; it would make me miserable.&#x22; As I think of the number of books of fiction you have created and the many awards you have received (including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship) for ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall An Interview with Octavia E. Butler 2026-02-21 text/html en-US An Interview with Octavia E. Butler 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 71664 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983245 <p></p> This conversation originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 25, No. 4, 2002.This conversation was moderated by Eisa Davis, recorded by the New School Writing Program, and jointly sponsored by Cave Canem and the New School.What I wanted to say before we begin is that this conversation series was inaugurated because Cave Canem members and faculty believed, particularly after the deaths of Barbara Christian, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Dudley Randall, that our ancestors while living needed to tell their stories one more time for those who hadn&#39;t heard them. And so as part of that cause, I wanted to preface what we do tonight by saying just a few words about my grandmother.She spent most of her life in Birmingham, Alabama ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall Lucille Clifton and Sonia Sanchez: A Conversation 2026-02-21 text/html en-US Lucille Clifton and Sonia Sanchez: A Conversation 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 68479 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983246 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 27, No. 4, 2004.This interview was conducted on May 28, 2004, at Texas A&#x26;M University in College Station, where Natasha Trethewey was teaching poetry writing in the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops, whose faculty also included Forrest Hamer (poetry), Helen Elaine Lee (fiction), and Percival Everett (fiction).When I read your poetry, the first word that comes to my mind is restoration. Your project seems to be the restoration of what is not seen or is forgotten as a result of erasure from local and national memory. You tend to use poetry as a corrective; you interrogate and critique events and figures, past and present, and then inscribe them in our psyches ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall Inscriptive Restorations: An Interview with Natasha Trethewey 2026-02-21 text/html en-US Inscriptive Restorations: An Interview with Natasha Trethewey 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 42330 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983247 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 28, No. 3, 2005.The following interview consists of Komunyakaa&#39; s responses to questions faxed to him on July 14, 2004.You have been involved in many collaborations. You have collaborated with musicians and with visual artists. The results have included stage and radio performances and CDs. In general, what attracts you to collaborations with artists working in different media?The ideal collaboration is a dialogue and negotiation. Of course, one has to carefully select his or her partner in crime; one has to select someone whose sense of aesthetics is interwoven into the character of each endeavor. But also, most importantly, someone who can grow with you, so ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall Komunyakaa, Collaboration, and the Wishbone: An Interview 2026-02-21 text/html en-US Komunyakaa, Collaboration, and the Wishbone: An Interview 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 43353 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983248 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 28, No. 4, 2005.First off, let&#39;s talk about your latest book, American Smooth. This book literally came out of the fire, in some ways.In a sense, yes, it was the phoenix that rose from the ashes. We had a fire in 1998; lightning struck our house. Beyond the fact that it&#39;s the kind of tragedy you work your way out of, it also split the creative work. I identify my poems now as &#x22;before the fire&#x22; and &#x22;after the fire.&#x22; I was about halfway through a book when the fire intervened; the manuscript took a different path, and the path that it took turned out to be American Smooth.Because of the fire, my husband and I began ballroom dancing. After about a week of recovery ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall Interview with Rita Dove 2026-02-21 text/html en-US Interview with Rita Dove 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 51318 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983249 <p></p> This conversation originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 30, No. 3, 2007.The following conversation took place in real and constructed time.What is your first experience with Callaloo; when was the first time you heard about it?All hearsay, calls for submissions.This was when you were at Columbia or MIT?[R.U.E.&#x2014;Resist the Urge to Explain. When writing dialogue in fiction, resist deliberate exposition.][&#x22;I will tell the truth because writing dies when we lie&#x22; (I am paraphrasing Gabriel Garc&#xED;a Marquez, via the playwright, Jose Rivera.)] Confession: I admit it &#x2026; the fact that you went to MIT blows my mind. I&#39;m sorry, no matter how much you play it down, it&#39;s still a big deal. You can use both sides of the brain ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall A Conversation 2026-02-21 text/html en-US A Conversation 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 38411 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983250 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 30, No. 4, 2007.This interview was conducted and recorded on September 29, 2006, at the home of Hortense Spillers in Nashville, Tennessee.This interview is to get your perspective on the evolution of African-American/ Africana studies as it has happened over your career and then to get some projections and speculations about what the next thirty years might bring. If you don&#39;t mind, I would like to use the occasion of your recently published book of essays, Black and White and In Color, as a touchstone for our conversation. Let&#39;s start with the old cliche: If you don&#39;t know where you have been, you don&#39;t know where you are going. Could you elaborate on some of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall The Mission of Africana Studies: An Interview with Hortense Spillers 2026-02-21 text/html en-US The Mission of Africana Studies: An Interview with Hortense Spillers 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 56121 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983251 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 33, No. 4, 2010.John Edgar Wideman&#39;s literary work, already spanning more than four decades, comprises ten novels, three collections of stories, one collection of microstories, four nonfiction books, including his bestselling autobiographical work Brothers and Keepers (1984), and many essays, articles, and reviews. In the course of his career, Wideman, professor at Brown University where he teaches creative writing, has been awarded the PEN/Faulkner Award (1984, 1991), the American Book Award, a MacArthur Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize of the Society of American Historians for the novel The Cattle Killing (1996), and, for ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall To Democratize the Elements of the Historical Record: An Interview with John Edgar Wideman 2026-02-21 text/html en-US To Democratize the Elements of the Historical Record: An Interview with John Edgar Wideman 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 61985 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983252 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 35, No. 3, 2012.This interview took place on December 23, 2011, at the Lincoln Center Atrium in Manhattan. As a cultural critic and founder of Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, Greg Tate has published his writings on art and culture in the New York Times, Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and Jazz Times. All Ya Needs That Negrocity is Burnt Sugar&#39;s twelfth album since their debut in 1999. Tate shared his thoughts on jazz, afro-futurism, and James Brown.Tell me about your life before you came to New York.I was born in Dayton, Ohio, and we moved to DC when I was about twelve, so that would have been about 1971, 1972, and that was about the same time I really got ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall Negrocity: An Interview with Greg Tate 2026-02-21 text/html en-US Negrocity: An Interview with Greg Tate 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 62942 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983253 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 37, No. 2, 2014.This interview was conducted on March 28, 2005, at the British Arts Council in London, England.This morning, as I opened the newspaper The Daily Telegraph in my hotel, I noticed that there was an article on an exhibition of European-American paintings, a small collection from New England. This exhibition is being mounted at the Dulwich Picture Gallery here in London. I love art in various forms. All of us as human beings love it, and some few of us create it. You are an artist, a maker, a creator. Your literary texts are art; your poetry is art; your fiction is art. What is this thing that you make? Will you talk about the fiction you make as ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall An Interview with Ben Okri 2026-02-21 text/html en-US An Interview with Ben Okri 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 32849 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983254 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 39, No. 2, 2016.This interview was conducted by telephone between Brooklyn, NY, and College Station, TX, on October 25, 2015, and later edited via email between February 3 and May 10, 2016. On April 20, 2015, Columbia University announced the winners of that year&#39;s prizes, and Gregory Pardlo was among them as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his second collection, Digest (2014). Totem (2007) is his first collection.I want to begin this interview with the statement you gave as your ars poetica to accompany your poems in Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013). I&#39;ll read it for you here: I hope to ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall The Logic of Ekphrasis: An Interview with Gregory Pardlo 2026-02-21 text/html en-US The Logic of Ekphrasis: An Interview with Gregory Pardlo 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 32358 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983255 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo Volume 41, No. 4, 2018.At one point in our 2017 conversation, Dr. Joanne Gabbin describes Sterling Brown as a literary parent. Similarly, she has fostered the development of Black poetry by founding the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Since 1994, the Center&#39;s programming and decennial conference have produced a substantial archive of Black poetry. The archive attests to the wealth of opportunities the Center provides for emerging Black poets to work firsthand with established poets such as Kwame Dawes, Rita Dove, Nikki Giovanni, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Sonia Sanchez.Her efforts have ensured contemporary Black poets&#39; ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall Celebrate, Educate, Preserve: A Conversation with Furious Flower Poetry Center's Founder and Inaugural Director, Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin 2026-02-21 text/html en-US Celebrate, Educate, Preserve: A Conversation with Furious Flower Poetry Center's Founder and Inaugural Director, Dr. Joanne V. Gabbin 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 64695 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983256 <p></p> This interview originally appeared in Callaloo, Volume 42, No. 4, Winter 2024.This interview took place via Zoom, on June 20th, 2024.I&#39;m catching you in the middle of a big transition?I&#39;m moving. Normally, I just take the summer off and don&#39;t do any speaking things or interviews, or anything. I feel like I can&#39;t sustain the pace that I have to during the academic year if I don&#39;t take the summer off. So, with this move I thought: I&#39;ll start in the library, that&#39;s the first room that I&#39;ll try to pack. I don&#39;t even have one complete bookcase done! I&#39;ve never moved with the family, with my children. It&#39;s very different. I moved a lot when I was single, but being responsible for moving a household is&#x2026;it&#39;s a lot.Are you ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall An Interview with Jesmyn Ward 2026-02-21 text/html en-US An Interview with Jesmyn Ward 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 50237 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257 <p></p> I was born in Kingston, Jamaica to a Jamaican mother and an American father, both artists. After moving to the United States as a young child, I grew up between two cultures, a dual geography that continues to shape my artistic voice. Being raised in a home where creativity was embedded in daily life taught me that art is both a language and a discipline. My parents instilled in me the belief that an artistic life requires rigor, sacrifice, and sustained engagement with material exploration, principles that remain central to my practice.My work includes works on paper and site-specific installations, drawing on collage, abstraction, and material layering to examine identity, memory, and cultural narrative. As an ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/983257">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/27/image/coversmall Artist's Statement 2026-02-21 text/html en-US Artist's Statement 2026-02-21 2026 TWO Project MUSE® 4684 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2026-02-21