In her book Turning: A Swimming Memoir, Jessica J. Lee relates how swimming in the lakes of Berlin and Brandenburg not only helped her feel at home in this region, but also helped her work through a painful love story and childhood fears.
more...The AKO Caine Prize for African Writing’s shortlist for 2020 is out. The selection includes five short stories, all freely available via their website. It’s definitely worth checking them out. Here’s a short review of each to whet your appetite.
more...Kübra Gümüşay looks for ways to make our society more just and explains convincingly that language plays a central role in doing this.
more...Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker-prize-winning Girl, Woman, Other tells the stories of twelve people – as the dust jacket puts it – ‘mostly women, mostly Black’ for whom Britain has, in one way or another, been a home.
more...This essay is the first in a four-part series on Afropolitanism and literature. Taiye Selasi was one of the first people to introduce the term Afropolitanism and uses it to describe her identity.
more...A Black Women’s History of the United States is a great resource for readers interested in US history in general and Black women’s role in it specifically.
more...Poco. lit. recommends literature podcast episodes and others that are thematically related to poco. lit. Find a great mix of English and German-language podcasts.
more...Jessica J. Lee’s Two Trees Make a Forest is part ode to Taiwan, part loving meditation on the natural world, and part investigative journey into a family’s lost histories.
more...Emilia Roig, founder of the Centre for Intersectional Justice, discusses with Poco. Lit. what it means to do intersectionality work in Europe and particularly in Germany.
more...Olivia Wenzel’s strange and powerfully poetic debut tackles many pressing topics ranging from race to relationships with family members and coming to terms with one’s past and present.
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