Fe Head: The Political Potency of Omari Ra
The title Fe Head refers to the chemical symbol for iron, “Fe”, derived from the Latin ferrum, suggesting that the subject is an “iron man”; an emotionless, inhuman entity.
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Fire in the Capital
Only a few days after finding his settlement raided and his army reduced to nothing by an expedition of white men, Tamanaco – imprisoned – was forced to fight for his life in jaw-to-jaw combat against Amigo, one of Garci-González de Silva’s hunting hounds.
Read MoreYussef’s Dream
KAY-ANN HENRY “The nightmare is that there are two worlds. The nightmare is that there is only one world, this one.” — Susan Sontag an embroidered dove flies off the fabric that mother and sister kneaded materializes into...
Read MoreJust Keep Driving
ALIXA BROBBEY Smooth weapons in their hands, I’ll take care of snipers. and frantic fingers. Just get there as quick as possible. Insults piercing the air Just drive! Just drive. Drive, you idiot. like the bullets Freaking...
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Jimani’s Fever
Mention of the war caused Jimani to involuntarily bite the chew stick he was cleaning his teeth with. That was the day he lost both his sight and his mother. The irony! To be physically wounded by the enemy’s weapon long after they’d assailed him mentally.
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American-Made
Johnson was one of the most popular American presidents of all time. A charming, intelligent, Black, Republican, working class, energy entrepreneur, podcaster candidate from Texas. You couldn’t have made it up. The second Black President, first Black Republican President and unlike Obama, no Kenyan, Hawaiian or Indonesian background for the crazies to attack. An “American-Made” President.
Read MorePapa Never Spoke about the War (No. 3)
Kids deep in sleep
or supposed to be,
but I could hear him clear his throat
as if not to surprise himself
when he turned the corner
to the backyard garden.
Category Six
Jah had been painting the earth into existence all day, paintbrush in one hand, fat spliff in her lip corner. That night, the heat was more oppressive than a colonizer. So she turned up the Lasko Fan.
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PREE editor Donna Hemans launches new novel
PREE would like to congratulate one of our former editors, Donna Hemans, on the publication of her latest novel THE HOUSE OF PLAIN TRUTH now available from major outlets. Read more about the novel below:
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PREEing Berlin’s House of World Cultures
For us at PREE it was a signal honour to be given such prominent positioning in Bonaventure Ndikung’s ‘radical revamp’ of this venerable German institution. As Siddhartha Mitter put it in his New York Times article on the renowned curator and writer, A New Energy is Vibrating at This House:
It’s a different energy for a German public institution — not necessarily in sync with its counterparts — but Ndikung isn’t worried about that. “We want to build a different world,” he said. “We want to think of the world differently,” he added, “and every step matters. Every drop of water matters. And even if you’re coming with a teaspoon, that’s fine.”
How to speak sex in Antiguan
JOANNE C. HILLHOUSE In Antigua, “wife” is sex or the female sex organ – you know the one “knuckle” is when your woman gives “wife” to another man “keep woman” is your side piece – you know, the woman you “dey wid” on the side We...
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WHITE HOUSES: Words after reading Safiya Sinclair’s How to Say Babylon
I loved my father regardless, and I burned with resentment and rage at the unfairness of his kingdom, while I never failed to find comfort in the island he showed me, where nothing was off limits to me, nothing denied.
Just conform, Diana, my mother said to me when I fought with my father. Conform.
