social justice and diversity trainer, and editor of poco. lit.
Valeria Luiselli teaches at Columbia University in New York, and works as a journalist in Mexico and the USA. She published her excellent novel Lost Children Archive in 2019. From the very first pages, I fell in love with the book: with Luiselli’s gentle narrative voice, and with the family’s soundscape, whom my reading allowed […]
more...In early 2020, the German-Iraqi author Abbas Khider published his fifth novel, which is set in Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s dictatorial regime.
more...Alongside the writer Taiye Selasi, who was introduced in the first essay in this series, the political scientist Achille Mbembe is regarded as a key torchbearer of Afropolitanism. Mbembe presents Afropolitanism as an ethico-political stance.
more...As part of the Green Library event series, poco. lit. spoke to Jessica J. Lee about her books, nature writing, home and belonging, colonialism in Taiwan, and the literary journal The Willowherb Review.
more...Namwali Serpell’s debut The Old Drift is a challenging, many-layered novel about relationships between states and people that change with the world around them.
more...Zimbabwean poet and performer Linda Gabriel talks to Anna von Rath of poco. lit. about empowering women and children through permaculture and education with her non-profit organization Bontle Bahao.
more...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...Kübra Gümüşay looks for ways to make our society more just and explains convincingly that language plays a central role in doing this.
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...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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