This piece was originally written as part of a Nature and the City project in collaboration with Peach Street Magazine. Literary critic Terry Gifford claimed …
Green voices: the contemporary nature poets
Growing Pains
What’s in my nature? At this point, I am not really sure anymore. Titles I once adorned as inherently mine have transformed into possibilities, no …
Can We Ever Move Past Our Own Nature?
Nature vs. Nurture: the centuries-old debate. First coined by psychologist Sir Francis Galton in 1869 (although it’s unclear who initially began the discussion), the term …
Rain
Growing up in India, a former colony, I, like most children around me, was encouraged to read stories written by English authors before being exposed …
How Global Warming Is Affecting the Athletics
In September 2020, the Climate Reality Project anticipated that climate change would pose a greater threat to the future of sports than the Covid-19 pandemic …
Consider Malintzín
CW: Mentions of sexual assault, violence I hate calling myself a “citizen of the world.” It sounds like something you see on those cringey posters …
FRACTURE– Letter from the Editor
In the year of our (cruel, brutal) Lord, 2021, I think if we all looked back over the last five years, the one word that …
Anita Tension: Is #poetry really dead?
As we delve deeper in the so-called smartphone age, a new generation of poets is claiming social media as its writing space, its publisher, and …
This was supposed to be about hair (but it never just is)
A piece on politics, soft power, appropriation and braids, and how Africa can better leverage her cultural assets to maximise socio-economic returns. It starts with …
“I’m just not political”
During the height of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and George Floyd protests, I took a two week hiatus from social media. I had shared …