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Jan Beatty – "Red Sugar"
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- Who I am:
- I'm a mother, a sister, a proofreader, an event organizer, a lover of women's performance art and Canadian soap operas involving time-travel. I write every single day.
For the more formal literary stuff, please see my website: www.khadijahqueen.com.
- Connect with me online! My site, blog, or Twitter handle are:
- @blackpeculiar
blackpeculiar.tumblr.com
- Books I've written, anthologies I've contributed to, and any scripts or plays I've authored:
- My books of poetry are: Black Peculiar (Noemi Press, forthcoming 2011) and Conduit (Black Goat/Akashic 2008). Journals: jubilat, Eleven Eleven, Poemmemoirstory, and many others. Anthologies: Best American Nonrequired Reading (Houghton Mifflin, 2010); Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing (University of Arizona Press, 2009); Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks, from Vietnam to Iraq. (Kore Press, 2008); A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Persona Poems (University of Akron Press 2012); and Breakfast and Black Fist: Notes for Black Poets, forthcoming from University of Michigan Press.
- Media outlets that I currently write for:
- n/a
- My writing is:
- Fiction, Poetry, Memoir, Plays
- Outlets where I review books, TV, or film:
- Yes, books
- Services I offer to other writers:
- I edit/give feedback on manuscripts.
- I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:
- Red Thread Collective
- My professional associations:
- Cave Canem, AWP
- I found out about She Writes from:
- Julia Barry
Khadijah Queen's Blog
Jan Beatty – "Red Sugar"
Posted on April 24, 2011 at 3:00am 2 Comments 0 Likes
Jan Beatty – title poem from Red Sugar (University of Pittsburgh Press 2008)
When I came across Red Sugar, via recommendation on Amazon no less, I got angry that I hadn't heard of her sooner. I felt cheated that I had not known about her in grad school; I could have learned so much! So, although she's pretty well established with three books published already, I think it's appropriate to include her work as the final post for the week because I love the…
Continue Naomi Benaron - "The Language of Water"
Posted on April 23, 2011 at 3:00am 3 Comments 1 Like
Naomi Benaron - "The Language of Water" from her unpublished chapbook The Bones by Which We Stand
Aside from being a celebrated and virtuosic prose writer, Naomi Benaron is an accomplished poet who delivers a deep sense of awareness and social conscience in her work. She manages to make sweeping and beautiful the most painful of subjects, rendering cinematically the best and worst of the human…
Continue Sarah Gambito – "Immigration"
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 3:00am 3 Comments 0 Likes
Sarah Gambito – "Immigration," from Delivered (Persea Books 2009)
The speaker in "Immigration" is fierce and complex in questioning the nature and consequences of assimilation. The poem challenges simplistic definitions of immigration's legacy, whether for an individual or a country as a whole. In rejecting any assumptions that history is sacred, the poem is a dare and a scare and a middle finger. Its barbs are aimed at a constructed veneer, digging underneath the…
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- At 4:32pm on May 8, 2011,
Meg Waite Clayton said… - Khadijah, Welcome to She Writes. Love to have you join us in the Novelists – Struggling or Not group. I hope you're enjoying the site!
Meg Waite Clayton
Moderator, Novelist Group
Bestselling Author of The Four Ms. Bradwells and The Wednesday Sisters
- At 7:20pm on April 4, 2011,
Julia Barry said… 
Hi Khadijah,
So glad you are here, and welcome to She Writes! Psyched for your poems of the day coming up. :)
You can check out the Getting Started section to help you find your way around, or a great way to jump in is to get involved with our Groups.
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!
Warm best,
Julia Barry
Social Community Manager @ She Writes
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