Author: kristinakayrobinson
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sound
a haunting or an enchantment enchantment haunting haunting enchantment just as easy —— just as well —— land heart enchanted haunted enchanted with a haunting haunted by an enchantment
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Free the Work!
Reflection on a Desire for a People’s Literature By Kristina Kay Robinson Today, Black Americans again find themselves in the crosshairs. The target of America’s militarized police–our deaths the crux of the country’s media machine. The abysmal statistics cited in a recent audit of diversity in publishing by Lee & Low Books and painfully revelatory details about […]
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LOOK FOR ME IN THE WHIRLWIND (an excerpt)
The morning of September 11th, I wake up from a deep sleep and for a moment do not recognize my surroundings. Katie Couric’s shaken voice emanates from the television that I left on overnight. There is smoke and raging fire coming from the Twin Towers in New York City—something awful has happened. I am, for […]
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The Matrix of Creativity: Where the River Meets the Sea
Welcome to the AfroFuture: The Matrix of Creativity: Where the River Meets the Sea curatorial statement In a 1986 interview with Dr. Jerry Ward Jr. , New Orleans writer and griot, Tom Dent, Ward characterizes New Orleans as a “matrix for creativity.” The fugitive praxis of syncretism ( the combination of different religions or religious […]
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I’M THE WOMAN TO THE BLAME
#shakeitfoyohood There was a loud bang and then something that rattled the panes. Iema Kola looked out the window. She wondered if any of the others in the house heard what she had. A little bit like thunder but not quite. It was a different kind of vibration. A humming. A buzzing. More than a […]
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THE WITNESS
that’s quite a lot of silences held for one who has already said too much we on either side of the glass cannot avoid each other this story will take an eternity the price your curse— try
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LA CANDELA: AN INCANTATION PART I
PRESS PLAY ✨🩸 It’s not music It’s not spoken word It’s an experience Hope you enjoy Love Always, Maryam, Not For Sale: Maryam’s Refrain
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FICTION SKETCH: BLACK VIRGIN
Black Virgin . . . “Please man. Just this time… take care of me, Co?” “Come on,” I said, and lead the man whose voice had broken the dark and the woman he had with him to the back of the store. The woman was young and quiet, too fucking quiet. She was wearing a pair of […]
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ESSAY: History & Geography: Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi Covers “The Source”
ROOM 220 INTERVIEW:History & Geography: Field Marshall Dedan Kimathi Covers “The Source”
Kristina Kay Robinson 