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Callaloo Journal @callaloojournal.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Callaloo executive editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres at NYC’s Whitney Museum of American Art, pictured with Amy Sherald’s "Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)," which graced the cover of Callaloo Vol. 39, No. 2! The Whitney is exhibiting Sherald's work through 8/10. whitney.org/exhibitions/...

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Callaloo Journal @callaloojournal.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Who is your favorite living Black essayist or memoirist? What essays or memoirs are most compelling to you? . . . (✨The 1st and 10th people to respond will a FREE copy of our newest issue, a special Black Britain issue guest-edited by Jason Allen-Paisant and Karen McCarthy Woolf!!✨)

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

"Disaster enthralls us," writes Rita Dove as she ponders the shock and loss of a devastating house fire, part of the Summer 2008 special issue of @CallalooJournal devoted to Dove's work and influence Read "The Fire This Time" free on @ProjectMUSE thru 30 June tinyurl.com/3b7pk83w

The Fire This Time
Rita Dove
"Where were you when the world changed forever?"
Read free thru 30 June
Illustrated with cover art from the Summer 2008 issue of Callaloo devoted to Rita Dove

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

In a classic @callaloojournal.bsky.social essay, Trudier Harris explores the historical significance of Emily D. West, the 19th-century Black woman who is arguably the subject of the beloved song, “The Yellow Rose of Texas" Read free thru 30 June at @ProjectMUSE tinyurl.com/3ezp94du

The Yellow Rose of Texas
A Different Cultural View
Trudier Harris
Read free thru 30 June
Illustrated with the cover art from the 1858 sheet music for The Yellow Rose of Texas (public domain)

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

@callaloojournal founder & longtime editor Dr. Charles H. Rowell was honored with this year's PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing Executive editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres accepted on his behalf at the May 8 ceremony Read all about it at the Newsroom Blog: tinyurl.com/muaby8bt

Callaloo Founder Awarded
Dr. Charles H. Rowell, founding editor of Callaloo,
honored with the 2025 PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing
Read more and watch the award ceremony video at the Newsroom Blog
Illustrated with a photograph of Charles Rowell and two issues of Callaloo

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Callaloo Journal @callaloojournal.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Our founder, Dr. Charles Rowell, was recently honored with @penamerica.bsky.social's Nora/Magid Award for Magazine Editing! 🎉🎉Our executive editor, Kyla Kupferstein Torres, was there to accept the award on Dr. Rowell’s behalf.

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Callaloo Journal @callaloojournal.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

CALLALOO 42.4 contributor Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond sent these photos from The Library of Africa and the African Diaspora in Accra, Ghana, where many back issues of CALLALOO are archived in the Professor lan H. Munro collection! Find more information on the Munro collection at loatad.org/library.

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Callaloo Journal @callaloojournal.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

We loved to see Amy Sherald's "Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)" on the March 24 cover of The New Yorker! It also appeared on the cover of Callaloo's Vol. 39.2 in 2016! Do you have a favorite Callaloo cover? Take a shot and share it with us!

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Callaloo Journal @callaloojournal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Brown University!

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Callaloo Journal @callaloojournal.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

📣📣Interested in working with Callaloo? We're looking for a full-time managing editor. Might that be you? Applicants are encouraged to apply by March 24th. Find complete details here: bit.ly/4iyvn0k

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Managing Editor, Callaloo

Job Description: Callaloo is a literary journal dedicated to the creative and critical exploration of the African Diaspora. For almost fifty years, Callaloo has been one of the most essential and cont...

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Callaloo Journal @callaloojournal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Congratulations to all the winners of The American Academy of Arts & Letters awards, including Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop alum Jamel Brinkley & Callaloo contributors Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Johny Pitts! www.artsandletters.org/news?slug=20...

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News - American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is an honor society of the country's 300 leading architects, artists, composers, and writers.

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Callaloo Journal @callaloojournal.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Congratulations to CALLALOO contributor Torli Bush! Torli's work appears in our special double issue on Black Appalachia, guest-edited by Crystal Wilkinson. Order the issue at www.press.jhu.edu/journals/car...

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Callaloo Journal @callaloojournal.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Our Executive Editor, @kylakt.bsky.social, was interviewed for the latest episode of the JHUP Podcast! Available wherever you get your podcasts & at bit.ly/40PNMyz. Kyla & JHUP also pulled together an epic reading list spanning CALLALOO's decades, most free to read thru 2/29!: bit.ly/4gC3oeG

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