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Review| Miles Ahead: Wild, but works!
Last weekend, I was lucky to attend a trinidad + tobago film festival screening of Miles Ahead – the impressionistic biopic of music icon Miles Davis written, directed and co-produced by Don Cheadle. Though…
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Poetry: TRAUE’s Special Issue #BlackLivesMatter
The latest issue of The City University of New York’s (CUNY) online journal Theory, Research & Action in Urban Education focused on #BlackLivesMatter and I’m happy to have my poem, “Immigrant Sings the Blues,” included…
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Poem: Voyage to India: Thanks, Raf
Since my uncle, Raf Robertson, died in December 2015, I have not publicly shared any tributes to him. My grief surrounding his death has been personal. In honor of World Poetry Day, I decided to…
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Mosley & the Crime of Color
I started 2017 reading Walter Mosley’s decade-old publication, Fortunate Son. Mosley is a mystery writer of note having authored the famous Easy Rawlins series. While prolific, Mosley’s experiments outside of mystery have achieved “mixed…
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Poetry: Celebrating Edmonia Lewis
On the first day of Black History Month this year, Google celebrated the noted 19th-Century African & Native American sculptor, Edmonia Lewis, with a doodle. I was happy to see that she’d been chosen…
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Poetry: The New Engagement
I’m really honored to have been included in Digital Issue No. 8 (February, 2017) of The New Engagement (TNE) – a literary and arts journal focused on stories of resilience and resistance by people…
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Poor Choices & the Internet
…the personal is always political …the personal is all ways political. Last July I had Flow internet service installed at my apartment. As it turned out, the room best suited to host the modem…
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Poem: Portrait of a Poet
Portrait of a Poet Dedicated to Kearra Gopee. Photo Credit: Kearra Gopee. People often compliment my smile But don’t know that sometimes I smile to remind myself to be happy. That sometimes a…
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Poetry & Fiction in Ayiti
Last week, I was privileged enough to read my work alongside other Caribbean writers at the 2016 Caribbean Studies Association conference in Haiti. I’m sharing a recording of the reading here. I read from…
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Zahra Gordon 