The Art of the Short Story Workshop (May-June 2025)
2025 Children's Literature Conference
Home
About
Our Mission
Kweli Staff
Editorial Masthead
Partners
Opportunities
Journal
Current Issue
Sing the Truth! Blog
Interviews
Submit
Programs
Annual Events: Conference & Festival
Mentorship
Educational Programming
Retreats
Video Library
Upcoming Events
Donate

KWELI / Truth From the Diaspora's Boldest Voices

The Art of the Short Story Workshop (May-June 2025)
2025 Children's Literature Conference
Home
About
Our Mission
Kweli Staff
Editorial Masthead
Partners
Opportunities
Journal
Current Issue
Sing the Truth! Blog
Interviews
Submit
Programs
Annual Events: Conference & Festival
Mentorship
Educational Programming
Retreats
Video Library
Upcoming Events
Donate
Image 5-3-25 at 6.09 PM.jpeg

 



 

 

Laura Pegram
April 30, 2019

The Crisco Cry on The Floor of Mama’s Diamond Quilted Womb by Jenna Lyles

Laura Pegram
April 30, 2019
The Crisco Cry on The Floor of Mama’s Diamond Quilted Womb by Jenna Lyles

Button nose buried her underbrush sinews / Haptic eyes glued to her gullet     overhead

Comment
Laura Pegram
April 30, 2019

Operation Babylift by Tiana Nobile

Laura Pegram
April 30, 2019
Operation Babylift by Tiana Nobile

Skin still wet with mother’s / grief. I brought my baby / to them, I admit it.

Comment
Laura Pegram
April 30, 2019

Areytos for the Shipwrecked: Re/Vuelta by Vincent Toro

Laura Pegram
April 30, 2019
Areytos for the Shipwrecked: Re/Vuelta by Vincent Toro

Each morning you blitzkrieg the tavern and pineapple conucos, / turn the rivers into arsenic, lock my kin up in sheet metal factories, / committing autopsies on their bodies while they are still alive. /

Comment
Laura Pegram
April 30, 2019

Block by Lisbeth White

Laura Pegram
April 30, 2019
Block by Lisbeth White

for hundreds of years  /         i am given     the gestures of freedom  without birds the hush of  mist   / awakening on my bones

Comment
Newer Posts
Older Posts

Kweli is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization supported by readers like you and by grants from organizations including the New York State Council on the Arts, Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, Amazon Literary Partnership and the Whiting Foundation.

Kweli Journal is supported in part by an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support general operating expenses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 
Amazon_Literary_Partnership_Logo.jpg
fullsizeoutput_76f1.jpeg
fullsizeoutput_76f0.jpeg
Whiting LMP Winner Badge.jpg
Back to Top
SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER
Contact
Terms & Conditions
editors@kwelijournal.org

Powered by Squarespace

© 2009 - 2023 Kweli Journal, Inc.