Issue 07 Spotlight: Fatimah Asghar
Executive Editor Alexandra Watson asked poet Fatimah Asghar about community, the role of writers in responding to violence, and reading recommendations. Fatimah’s poetry will appear in Apogee Issue 07.
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Issue 07 Preview: Firelei Báez
In the weeks leading up to the Apogee Journal Issue 07 release, we’d like to treat you to a sneak preview of the visual art in the new issue.
Punk Rock, Race, and Writing Teen Characters: An Interview with Chris Terry
In our forthcoming issue (Apogee Journal Issue 07), Chris L. Terry gifts us with an electric flash piece entitled “I Got Into Punk After” from his novel in progress, Magical Negroes. In this interview, we discuss voice, craft, and advice for this year’s submitters.
Issue 07 Preview: Jennifer Packer
JENNIFER PACKER In the weeks leading up to the Apogee Journal Issue 07 release, we’d like to treat you to a sneak preview of the visual art in the new issue. Eric Oil on canvas 17 x 19 inches 2013 Courtesy of the artist JENNIFER PACKER (born Philadelphia, 1984) received her BFA from the Tyler University School of Art at Temple University in 2007, and her MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 2012. In 2012-2013 she was Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, and from 2014 to 2016 was a Visual Arts Fellow at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Packer lives and works in New York.
Poetry by Caroline Cabrera
“My mother, she hung a crucifix. Together we said a rosary. The devil retreated.”
Queer History, Queer Now
And we know, we have always known, that no place is safe—we are queer people of color, no place is ever safe for us, not even the gay club—but it’s one of the few spaces where, at least for the duration of a song, we can imagine a complete surrender to the music that transports us into the sheer enjoyment of a moment. Rigoberto González
ISSUE 08 Reading Period Open!
Apogee Journal’s reading period is now open! We are seeking fiction and nonfiction for Issue 08, to be published in Fall/Winter 2016. Our reading period opens June 22 and closes August 15. We are not reading poetry for our print issue at this time. Perigee, our blog, is open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry year-round.
AAWW PubCon!
Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s third Publishing Conference is a special one-day session to hear from veteran authors, agents and editors. Past conferences featured speakers from The New Yorker, The New York Times, Penguin Random House, W.W. Norton, and more. Open to writers of all ages, races, and genres!
Two Poems by Shira Erlichman
Ode to Lithium #147: Conversation with K.
Creation Stories in Nuruddin Farah’s Hiding in Plain Sight
Swati Khurana reviews Nuruddin Farah’s novel, Hiding in Plain Sight