Summer/Fall 2026 Website Features

Poetry Edition

Community Tributes to Claudia Whittingham
By African Voices
Posted in Website Features
In honor of the beloved Claudia Whittingham, watch tributes from her family and friends from a special memorial held on May 2, 2025 and then read a personal tribute from Sandrine Dupiton.
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The Catalyst by Katheryne McMullen
By African Voices
Posted in Website Features
Linda would begin on the 7th floor with the bordering offices; and then snake her way through the rows of cubicles, emptying each wastebasket and performing lite dusting if time permitted…
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Queen of swords by Calypso Hall
By African Voices
Posted in Website Features
My heart hue rose gold Transforms To sword in stone I could be my own king I could marry my own soul I could be alone…
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Dem Moon Girls by Rabih Ahmed
By African Voices
Posted in Website Features
dem moon girls know of high tides beating against tower walls whose emotions swing in the dark of night echoing the pain of their…
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Expressions of me by Mary Seymour
By African Voices
Posted in Website Features
I AM THE VOICE OF A BLACK WOMAN CAUGHT BETWEEN YOUTH AND OLD AGE I AM THE VOICE OF AN ANGRY BIRD THAT CAN’T UNDERSTAND THE VIDEO APP I AM THE VOICE OF ALL OF THE ANCESTORS…
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Backstage with the Features
By African Voices
Posted in Website Features
On these pages, explore more poems written by our Summer/Fall 2026 Features, Chip Williford, Yesenia Montilla, and Kim D. Brandon.
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Love and Resilience Response – Yesenia Montilla
By African Voices
Posted in Website Features
I don’t think Love and Resilience are the same. But they inform one another. Love makes resilience possible and resilience is how we survive these times. The more we love, (whether it be other humans, trees…
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Love and Resilience Response – Kim D. Brandon
By African Voices
Posted in Website Features
These are challenging times. It feels like we are at war within our own country. The emotional fatigue feels never-ending. It’s times like these when I look to poetry to help me get reconnected to a sense of love for self, for family, for community, for the world…
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Interview with Chip Williford
By African Voices
Posted in Website Features
SUFFOLK COUNTY NY’S FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN POET LAUREATE We wanted to meet face-to-face, but the weather report for the day we scheduled was predicting rain. That past week Mother Nature couldn’t decide whether to tease us with a day of sunshine or become Fall in redux…
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