#apogeejournal

[brownroundboi]

That level of hope challenges the idea of the individual as alone, sovereign, or separate and that denies the ancestral and innate connection to earth. That’s constant work and by proxy, Brown Disabled Queer work. The Body-story in my work is an optimal catalyst in poetry, a means of re-mapping to re-evaluate the body and spirit on our own terms. Make a home of your body, I tell myself. Make it yours and make it beyond.

-- Kay Ulanday Barrett/@brownroundboi, from Apogee Journal interview, "Feeling Our Possible Volume" bit.ly/apogeekay42017

[backchannelsjournal]

#apogeejournal #blm #blackvoicesmatter #support #backchannelsjournal https://www.instagram.com/p/CBLm0tFlEJT/?igshid=1rugm4zft13gs

[lahurakan]

Dear Ochún

Dear Ochún,

My brother texts: some        cut up wisdom       & I feel how broken he sees me:      a five year old girl         a split diamond     between my wide thighs.         Since I  broke quiet,  since         I spilled, I watch bootleg      instead of  poem. Ochún,        how can I  write in English?             I begin, it cheapens                my tongue. I dream of Standing        Rock. All the silent guazábaras.      I ready myself,  but I have to pay           rent. I slip        so easily from bed to river,        I let my hand           over the side           the floor floods black. River   there between fingers.     I hear your waves as dock rocks against hull. How kerosene     glows yellow,      smell of wick. How burnt smoke        sticks to back throat.       It was like this: all the bad magic       that wept through           that  floating shack paled to your strength. You rocked        me & constellated hard. Your sweet       water ran through                 my blood & I spoke below. Now, they say    the oil snake   begs a sweet    whine through your waters.      Let me say this:     my daughter is named        water. Ochún, you gave me river     as daughter    & soy siempre la huracan. Instead of bohío,     double gold fee. Instead     of forest,   food bank. I miss      the sound of an aluminum roof. The way    water pours over & lets me know    I’m home. They say our language   guata    is dead. They say our people      guata       are dead. They taught          me that I’m a ghost spirit walking.              They left me on the river.

  Siempre tuya,                                  María

(Published on Apogee  #NoDAPL #StillHere: Native and Anti-Colonial Craft Against Dispossession http://apogeejournal.org/nodapl/p8/)

[llemaoana]

#Repost @apogeelit (@get_repost) ・・・ Our visual arts preview of Apogee Issue 09 is now live on our website. Join us on June 8th at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop for the launch of Issue 09! Lawrence Lemaona, I did not join the struggle to be poor, Embroidery on fabric, 2016 #art #visualart #apogee #apogeejournal #ApogeeIssue09

[brooklife-blog]

Who's ready for new fiction from Tiphanie Yanique and an essay by @thenaomijackson? I am. #apogeejournal #literaryawag

[wendyssubway]

Wendy’s Subway is pleased to announce the WS Residency Program.  Every quarter, organizations, publications, and presses are invited to Wendy’s to develop public programming and workshops, contribute to our quarterly publication, Wendy’s Is, and contribute to the WS Residency Archive, a growing library of residents’ publications and selected materials. The WS Residency program works to continue our insistence on the value of discourse and collaboration through interdisciplinary and open practices.  We are excited to announce our first publication-in-residence, Apogee Journal. Apogee's mission: "Apogee is a literary journal specializing in art and literature that engage with issues of identity politics: race, gender, sexuality, class, and hyphenated identities. We currently produce a biannual issue featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. Our goal is to publish exciting work that interrogates the status quo, providing a platform for unheard voices, including emerging writers of color." As part of their residency, Apogee Journal will host an anti-Valentine’s reading in February, and a Writing & Activism workshop series (dates TBA). Apogee Journal will also contribute copies of previous issues to the Residency Archive, and works from their Alternate Canon. More projects to be announced.