During Black History Month, writer Biankah Bailey has worked with the Tokyo Poetry Journal to produce "Umoja," a book featuring the work of Black creatives.
April 22, 2021
Every now and then we receive something at
NDQ that deserves to be published, but its format, for some reason, makes it difficult to publish in the paper issue.
This is the case with Ana P.’s erasures. Created from pages captured from Google Books the resolution makes it difficult to reproduce in print form. At the same time, the graininess of the images and the almost ethereal character of the words on the page contributes the atmospheric character of her reclaimed verses.
While these pages will not be appearing in the next issue of the
Quarterly, it is not because they’re not high quality, challenging, and compelling.