Statement of Solidarity with Palestine
Apogee Journal affirms our unequivocal solidarity with the Palestinian people and supports their struggle for liberation and justice.
Announcing Apogee Issue 18
Dear Apogee readers… Welcome to Issue 18. In these words and works, we invite you to bear witness to a myriad of existences. We dream of a lingua franca rising up, an undying link between our respective dystopias. Draw strength from us, from our mission, from our writers and their work, and explore our latest issue today.
“I move like a poet in my entire life”: An Interview with Safia Elhillo
A conversation with poet Safia Elhillio about her subversive collection, her poetic origin story, and her neverending search for the perfect poem.
Evolving Alongside Your Art: An Interview with Fatimah Asghar
"Artmaking is the process of evolving. If you allow yourself to really let the art flow through you in the way that you need it to, you will then allow yourself to be changed by the art, rather than trying to impose your will over the art."
“Shamelessly Lyrical and Ecstatic”: An Interview with Kemi Alabi
"I'm always playing with sound, trying to find the line, and letting language lead me somewhere. I'm satisfied with what I've found when the real shit pops up, and that's what I can revise toward. Black feminist writers taught me the urgency, political potency, and transformative power of truth-telling, and the only truth I'm interested in is accessed through vulnerability—I'm skeptical of its other origins."
“The Beauty Is Where the Play Is”: A Conversation with Paige Clark on “She is Haunted”
Many of Clark’s protagonists are mixed-race Asian women who grapple with how their heritage shapes their relationships with friends, family members, and lovers. More than a few of them are named Elisabeth (or variations thereof) and share overlapping histories and similar lexicons—as if they were parts of a single consciousness refracted across time and space.