In her palinode–a poetic form of retraction–Donika Kelly contemplates the hybridity of memory and correction’s possibilities and foreclosures. The metaphor that does the heavy lifting in this poem is the centaur: half horse, half human, a creature of bodily hungers demanding satisfaction and slant longings for wisdom.
In conversation, Greg Newton and Deborah Edel discuss the archives and spaces that facilitate queer knowledge-making.
Chenoa Baker drives through two Pittsburgh exhibitions on The Green Book and other Black guidebooks, tracing the community knowledge used by individual navigators for a multiplicity of Black experience.
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