Can We Feel It All? An Interview with Justine el-Khazen
Apogee contributor Justine el-Khazen reflects on how and why she writes, in conversation with nonfiction editor, Safia Jama. Her essay “Hummingbird Effect” is so lyrical and it might be mistaken... Read More
Alternate Canon: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Recently, I’ve been thinking of June Jordan and the last lines of her inspiriting poem, “Poem for South African Women”, in which also lives the title of Alice Walker’s... Read More
White Boys Will Be Boys: My Mike Brown, White Privilege and Adolescent Mischief
White Boys Will Be Boys: My Mike Brown, White Privilege and Adolescent Mischief Matt L. Rohrer I grew up a skateboarder in Concord, CA, a fairly diverse but segregated... Read More
Two Poems to #StandWithFerguson
CONVERGENCE Nancy Bevilaqua For Gaza, for Ferguson Back behind the barricades they’re saying what the looting means. Call it full-stop mercenary. Manholes steam. Fortune for the one... Read More
I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against A Sharp White Background: An Elegy
I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against A Sharp White Background: An Elegy Morgan Parker After Glenn Ligon after Zora Neale Hurston Or, I feel sharp White.... Read More
We Stand With Ferguson
The acts of police brutality against Black people in recent weeks, in particular the shootings of Michael Brown and John Crawford in Missouri and Ohio and the homicide of Eric Garner in New... Read More