Announcing:American Book Review, Volume 29 Number 4 with a focus on Women of Color Publishing

Top 10 Reasons to get a copy of American Book Review (just this once!)

1. Audre Lorde's face is on the cover of American Book Review. Enough said.

2. "This Instant and This Triumph" an introductory essay that puts the current women of color publishing movement into historical context by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

3. Profiles of some of the amazing publishing initiatives that women of color are popping off RIGHT NOW!

4. Ernest Hardy's exciting new release from RedBone Press (BloodBeats Vol. 2 The Bootleg Joints) reviewed by the brilliant collar popping scholar ALISHA GAINES!

5. Asha Bandele's contemporary classic The Subtle Art of Breathing reviewed by the inspiring womanist performance diva EBONY GOLDEN!

6. INCITE: Women of Color Against Violence's crucial The Revolution Will Not Be Funded reviewed by the strategically fly organizer PAULINA HERNANDEZ!

7. Girlchild Press's new anthology Just Like A Girl: A Manifesta reviewed by the most talented and necessary fiction writer of our generation DANIELLE EVANS!

8. Hermana Resist's collaborative 'zine The MAIZ Chronicles reviewed by BROWNFEMIPOWER!

9. UBUNTU/BrokenBeautiful Press's interactive anthology Wrong is Not My Name reviewed by the textually incisive KINOHI NISHIKAWA!

10. A bunch of headlines that the guest editor DID NOT APPROVE, but finds amusing nonetheless.

Check it: www.americanbookreview.org

.) If I were a doll, the accessories packaged with me would be:
poems, fabric paint, juice and tea

2.) I have an irrational fear of:
death...because i can't rationalize it.

3.) What type of food do you eat at your grandparents house?
plantains, rice and peas, cornmeal porridge, dumplings mmmmm

4.) What weight were you when you were born?
damn near 9lbs

5.) What would you do if you were stranded on an island with the person you hate most?
Condee and I would have to work it out.

6.) What would you do if you found out you had been cheated on?
silent rage...radical absence

7.) Do you stalk anyone on myspace?
nope...but i did once...for one day... is there such thing as a one-day-stalker?

8.) I find the thought of childbirth:
sexy and exciting

9.) Next door to my house is:
an unhappily heterosexually married couple and their pogosticking daughter

10.) My feet are:
in j's slippers

11) What kind of jeans do you wear?
the ones nana sends

12.) Why is your 1 your 1?
only one?

13) Do you know how to cook?
about 3 things yeah

14.) I am annoyed with:
my sore throat

15.) What is the worst way you were dumped?
What I hate is when people just force me to dump them by being intentionally intolerable. That's some weak shit.

16.) What child-related smell do you not like?
diapers

17.) What sea creature scares you?
sea monsters...i know they are down there

18.) What color hair do most of the people you are around have?
dark brown, black

19.) What object have you broken most recently?
a teacup at the retreat center

20.) Name one of the Spice Girls.
posh

21.) What was the last thing to make you cry?
finding out that mama nayo died while i was away

22.) What are the stems on wine glasses for:
to make them look like tulips

23.) My favorite shoes are:
variations on the ballet slipper

24.) Can you use chopsticks?
poorly

25.) Do you prefer beaches or forests?
beaches...and the ghanain rainforest

26.) What serial killer do you find most disturbing?
Condee

27.) Who knows a secret or two about you?
everyone...which means...

28.) Have you ever burned yourself?
yup. my tongue most recently.

29.) Who is probably talking a load of crap about you right now?
the volunteer army of white supremacists online

30.) Who is your hero[s]?
momma, audre lorde, jurina to name three of many

31.) Where is your sister right now?
in the tower, in her dorm room, asleep

32.) Do you believe in things that last forever?
energy...not things

33.) What are you listening to?
Roison Murphy-Sow Into You

34.) What do you smell like?
vicks vapo-rub

35.) Are you married?
nope

36.) Does anyone regularly tell you they love you?
my jj, my momma, myself

37.) What's the most confusing to you?
death

38.) Do you have any bad habits?
many

39.) Have you ever wanted to be a teacher?
always somehow

40.) What is one thing you've learned about life?
it will always surprise me

41.) What's your favorite color?
brown

42.) Have you ever been stuck in an elevator?
yes...with half of a football team...in a building older than this country. scary shit.

43.) What does your dad call you?
uh-lexis

44.) Has anyone told you that they like you more than a friend?
not in those words...

45.) What are you looking forward to?
the doctor's office picking up the phone

46.) How are you today?
sick :(