Mosaic Literary Magazine

Rebecca Walker and Michaela angela Davis

Mosaic — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:17:58 +0000

February 14, 2012 – Rebecca Walker and Image Activist Michaela angela Davis conducted a conversation about Walker’s new anthology Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness. The collection—with essays written by prominent voices and figures such as bell Hooks, Henry Louis Gates, dream Hampton, Staceyann Chin as well as Michaela—explores the origins, aesthetics as well [...]

Camille T. Dungy

Mosaic — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:57:02 +0000

Camille T. Dungy is the author of What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison; Suck on the Marrow, for which she received a 2011 American Book Award; and Smith Blue. She is a National Endowment for the Arts fellow, and was a finalist for the PEN Center USA 2007 Literary Award. [...]

Lesson Plans for Secondary School Educators

Mosaic — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:23:34 +0000

Mosaic supplements its print issues with lesson plans that are developed based on the content of each issue. These lesson plans, developed for secondary school educators, demonstrate how Mosaic’s content can serve as a connective tool to empower educators to use books, writing, and reading to engage students. Each lesson plan includes three themes and [...]

Best Books of 2011

Mosaic — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:26:08 +0000

NONFICTION Color Me English: Migration and Belonging Before and After 9/11 By Caryl Phillips The New Press In this book of personal and critical essays, Caryl Phillips explores themes of cultural awareness and racial identity that are often at the center of his engaging fiction. Color Me English is a profound collection of previously written, [...]

Portraits of Women Writers of the African Diaspora

Mosaic — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:31:50 +0000

December 1, 2011 – I had the pleasure of attending the opening reception for the important and fabulous exhibition “Her Word As Witness: Portraits of Women Writers of the African Diaspora” Photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn The exhibit documents a dynamic group of women writers, artists, and publishing professionals. On view at Skylight Gallery at [...]