Offering a divination system rooted in the Indigenous and African experience in North America
her settings are historical and contemporary
these poems lay bare the challenging dance between the role of the artist
Sharing the world of Toni Cade Bambara's "straight-up fiction" is a stunning experience
cultural and intellectual concerns
Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power Non-Fiction Offering a divination system rootedPoems, essays, and prompts to sing a new world into being Queer & BIPOC perspectives on poetry as an insurgent ritual for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power. Written for poets, spellcasters, and social justice witches, Poetry as Spellcasting reveals the ways poetry and ritual can, together, move us toward justice and transformation. It asks: If ritualized violence upholds white supremacy, what ritualized acts of liberation can be activated to