Guernica Magazine

“Other people can be intolerable on public transit, but they can be a comfort at the same time. They fill a raw need that we don’t always recognize.”

“Who, then, are the chroniclers of Black lives in the pandemic?”

“On becoming a kitchen archivist.”

“In the wake of a loss comes the urge to create.”

“Christina Kim risked everything to escape North Korea’s entrenched gender violence. She almost didn’t make it.”

“‘This Is One Way To Dance’ is a timely collection about identity—where it comes from, what it means (and doesn’t), and what happens when we lose it.”

“Darkness obscures and sunlight reveals, but dusk—that liminal moment in between—murmurs suggestions.”

“In 1918, she became the first Black woman tennis player to appear on the cover of an American magazine.”

“Tucked far away with my children, this is where I feel safest and most afraid.”

“The poet on radical revision, our reflections, and photographing poets.”