Sponsored by NCWN, the Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize honors the nineteenth-century writers Harriet Jacobs and Thomas H. Jones and is open to any Black and African-American writer whose primary residence is in North Carolina. The final judge of this year’s contest was DéLana R.A. Dameron. It’s a pleasure to see my new essay, Rituals of […]
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Brittle Paper’s 100 Notable African Books of 2023!
Ribbons and badges! It’s such an honor and absolute delight to see THE ANIMALS OF MY EARTH SCHOOL on this remarkable list! I’m eager to dive into some of these alluring titles as soon as I clear my desk and begin wintering. With one click, you may access the full list
Review by Heather Swan: The Animals of My Earth School
“We can choose goodness.” I am absolutely honored and thrilled to share this riveting review of The Animals of My Earth School by the remarkable poet, teacher, and essayist Heather Swan, published in Terrain.org Once in a while a poet finds kinship with another poet and shares it with great wisdom and profound understanding. […]
The Animals of My Earth School
Released to the world on April 10, 2023 Copies available via Terrapin Books and all other bookstore outlets. In The Animals of My Earth School, Mildred Kiconco Barya gives us magnificent hungers and provocative feasts. Her poems tutor us via insects, mammals, birds, and reptiles in the slippages of time and place and the swerves […]
The Animals of My Earth School pre-order available from several outlets below
In the compassionate, playful, fable-like poems of The Animals of My Earth School, Mildred Kiconco Barya awakens us to the vividly singing, fully alive, non-human communities surrounding us. These poems demonstrate poetry’s unique ability to prick us from our self-involved numbness and awaken us to wonder. There is great solace, tenderness, and innocence here—the kind of innocence capable of […]
News: The Animals of My Earth-School Institute
I am very delighted to announce that my poetry collection, The Animals of My Earth-School Institute, is forthcoming from Terrapin Books, 2023. You can read a sample—Factors—published on poets.org.
June Poetrio Libation
Excited once more to introduce three wonderful poets reading in June Join us for our monthly poetry event featuring three poets hosted by yours truly. This month, we welcome Angela Narciso Torres, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, and Jehanne Dubrow. Click here to RSVP. On the day of the event, we will send a reminder email with the link required […]
“…a relentless attempt to express the inexpressible.”
May Highlights: 1. Finishing strong in spite of… (whichever way you interpret that). 2. Mating turkeys. The thrill of joy to watch strutting turkeys in my yard, full of pride (shame has no place here). 3. Mildred Barya in Conversation with Michael Hettich. I have the greatest pleasure to share with you this comprehensive interview titled: […]
Mildred Barya with Malaprop’s March POETRIO Poets: Jesús Sepúlveda, Gianna Russo, and Aditi Machado
If you missed this wonderful reading, here’s the live recording, March 7, 2021 Click this link Brief Intros via their works Gianna Russo, One House Down. Gianna unsettles the past in One House Down. The poems in this book are packed with stories, filled with voices of people and their ghosts. History comes to life […]
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