MERGE- Life experiences through poetry, short stories and essays.
MERGE- Expressions of life that define us.
MERGE- Our multitude of experiences and our passionate perspectives.
MISSION
Merge Literary Magazine is a vehicle for expression and dialogue between readers and writers, photographers and visual artists. A plethora of topics will be covered in this online quarterly publication. Merge Literary Magazine will publish poetry and essays by the global community of Black writers about issues that affect Black people in the US, Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere.
This magazine will feature established, emerging and young writers, poets, spoken word artists and essayists, photographers and visual artists from all walks of life. We want your truths, experiences, your rants and raves, your secrets, your quiet thoughts, your celebratory shouts. We seek poetry about your experiences- Black experiences in the social, political, educational, religious, and family realms.
IN THIS ISSUE
Merge Literary Magazine's inaugural issue focuses on political affairs and features writing on institutionalized racism, sexism and capitalism; social justice and human rights, war and peace. Poems about the beauty of Blackness, family, community issues in the US political arena and beyond.
There is rhythm and revolution, cadence and celebration, protest and promise in these poems from Winter Across America By Gwen Russell Green and All Black by Adwowa Minus, to Text to Resurrect Revolution by Bob McNeil and In the Absence of War by Rashidah Ismaili and many more. We are delighted to share work by Eugene Redmond, Poet Laureate of East St. Louis and several other established Black writers, recognized artists, activists and intellectuals. We applaud the dynamic fresh voices featured as well. The cover art, Sam Grisham's my country tis of thee, mixed media on 48x48 gallery wrapped canvas, is a powerful visual introduction to this issue on Political Affairs and Social Justice.
Writers in this very first issue of Merge were able to write about their truths and experiences in a bold and intense manner. While reading the range of work the emotions of passion, love and anger; hope and healed spirits are elicited. A demand for justice courses through these pages.
This Inaugural Issue of Merge serves as a marker of resistance to the pandemic of systemic racism resulting in human rights abuses before the outpouring of protests created by the murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Breonna Taylor in Louis Kentucky in 2020 and others; coupled with the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic. The conjoining of these two viruses made many more (socio- economically and racially/ethnically) diverse people of all ages, join us in protesting the pandemic of systemic racism on the streets of the US and in other countries as well.
The issue of systemic racism continues to be paramount in our work through social movement, political literary expression, poetry and other artforms.
We are pleased to say that Merge Literary Magazine is celebrating our lives, literature and art.
Mari Rice Founding Editor-in-Chief
Malkia M'Buzi Moore Associate Editor
If your name does not appear in the table of contents and contributors and you are an established or emerging writer or visual artist whose work should be featured in Merge Literary Magazine, please submit now to our next issue with the focus on Black Women!
Merge Literary Magazine is a vehicle for expression and dialogue between readers and writers, photographers and visual artists. A plethora of topics will be covered in this online quarterly publication. Merge Literary Magazine will publish poetry and essays by the global community of Black writers about issues that affect Black people in the US, Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere.
This magazine will feature established, emerging and young writers, poets, spoken word artists and essayists, photographers and visual artists from all walks of life. We want your truths, experiences, your rants and raves, your secrets, your quiet thoughts, your celebratory shouts. We seek poetry about your experiences- Black experiences in the social, political, educational, religious, and family realms.
IN THIS ISSUE
Merge Literary Magazine's inaugural issue focuses on political affairs and features writing on institutionalized racism, sexism and capitalism; social justice and human rights, war and peace. Poems about the beauty of Blackness, family, community issues in the US political arena and beyond.
There is rhythm and revolution, cadence and celebration, protest and promise in these poems from Winter Across America By Gwen Russell Green and All Black by Adwowa Minus, to Text to Resurrect Revolution by Bob McNeil and In the Absence of War by Rashidah Ismaili and many more. We are delighted to share work by Eugene Redmond, Poet Laureate of East St. Louis and several other established Black writers, recognized artists, activists and intellectuals. We applaud the dynamic fresh voices featured as well. The cover art, Sam Grisham's my country tis of thee, mixed media on 48x48 gallery wrapped canvas, is a powerful visual introduction to this issue on Political Affairs and Social Justice.
Writers in this very first issue of Merge were able to write about their truths and experiences in a bold and intense manner. While reading the range of work the emotions of passion, love and anger; hope and healed spirits are elicited. A demand for justice courses through these pages.
This Inaugural Issue of Merge serves as a marker of resistance to the pandemic of systemic racism resulting in human rights abuses before the outpouring of protests created by the murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Breonna Taylor in Louis Kentucky in 2020 and others; coupled with the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic. The conjoining of these two viruses made many more (socio- economically and racially/ethnically) diverse people of all ages, join us in protesting the pandemic of systemic racism on the streets of the US and in other countries as well.
The issue of systemic racism continues to be paramount in our work through social movement, political literary expression, poetry and other artforms.
We are pleased to say that Merge Literary Magazine is celebrating our lives, literature and art.
Mari Rice Founding Editor-in-Chief
Malkia M'Buzi Moore Associate Editor
If your name does not appear in the table of contents and contributors and you are an established or emerging writer or visual artist whose work should be featured in Merge Literary Magazine, please submit now to our next issue with the focus on Black Women!
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