The official release of RENASCENCE

Currently available as a paperback and PDF from the Yellow Arrow bookstore. If interested in purchasing more than one copy for friends and family, click here.

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This Yellow Arrow Journal issue (Vol. VI, No. 1, Spring 2021) on RENASCENCE, guest-edited by Taína, is an invitation to journey through each other’s cultural renascence in the various manifestations awakening can take. Some pieces are nostalgic, bittersweet gifts from the depths of our memories that we cling to, while others are terror-filled nightmares we cannot awaken from fast enough, and still others are calls to action that will not be ignored. Each included story is a petroglyph on a cave wall, a flag planted in paper and ink. Each author is an explorer of their own culture, not discovering or conquering—for the stories of our ancestors have always been there waiting—but acting as pioneers of the past, revisiting and reclaiming the deep-rooted whispers and reflecting them into the future.

The cover art is called “Nature Springs From Her” by Kalichi Lamar, pyrography on a wood panel, and was inspired by the ceiba tree, the national tree of Borikén (Puerto Rico). It is also the sacred tree of her people, the indigenous Taínos. This tree was used to build canoes and is believed to have a direct connection to the spirit world and secrets of Atabey (mother earth).

Taína is a Baltimore-based Higuaygua Taíno writer, on a mission to write the Taíno culture into existence the same way the colonizers have attempted to erase it: one word, one Taíno at a time. Her essay “Killing Ty” appeared in Yellow Arrow Journal Vol. V, No. 1 RESILIENCE and was nominated for a 2021 Pushcart Prize. Find out more at TainaWrites.com and connect with her on Instagram @tainaconcurls or on Facebook @TainaWrites.

Thank you to everyone who tuned into Renascence LIVE! You can find the videos of the contributors who participated on our Facebook page.

Issue featuring: Charlotte Akello, Raga Ayyagari, Adrienne Christian, Elizabeth Cohen, Ruth Dickey, Joanne Durham, Wendy Garnier, Christine C. Hsu, Tricia Knoll, Kai Leung, Kim Berrios Lin, Chelsea Locke, Alison Akiko McBain, Michelle M. Mead, Gargi Mehra, Leah Myers, Jordan Nishkian, Melissa Nunez, Kathy Z. Price, Ellie Renae, Jennifer N. Shannon, Kaili Y. Turner, and Allison Whittenberg

Cover Art: Kalichi Lamar

Cover Design: Alexa Laharty

Editor-in-Chief: Kapua Iao

Guest Editor: Taína

Poetry Editor: Ann Quinn

CNF Managing Editor: Brenna Ebner

Editorial Associates: Bailey Drumm, Kierstin Kessler, and Siobhan McKenna

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