Join us June 4 at 7:00 pm EST for a virtual reading of our latest journal issue, Vol. VI, No. 1 (spring 2021), on RENASCENCE.
What: Renascence: A Reading, free and open to the public. You can catch the reading on our YouTube channel here.
Featuring: Raga Ayyagari, Adrienne Christian, Ruth Dickey, Joanne Durham, Wendy Garnier, Christine C. Hsu, Kalichi Lamar, Kim Berrios Lin, Alison Akiko McBain, Michelle M. Mead, Melissa Nunez, Kathy Z. Price, Jennifer N. Shannon, Kaili Y. Turner, and Allison Whittenberg.
Hosted by guest editor, Taína.
Yellow Arrow Journal, RENASCENCE, Vol. VI, No. 1 (spring 2021), is available in the Yellow Arrow bookstore as a paperback and PDF. If interested in purchasing more than one copy for friends and family, click here.
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This issue 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, “Nature Springs From Her,” is by Kalichi Lamar. The artwork, pyrography on a wood panel, 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.
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. Purchase your copy of RENASCENCE today.