J. Bret Maney (he/him)

A postdoctoral scholar and artist at Mount Holyoke College, Afua Ansong was raised in Accra, Ghana and the Bronx. Her recent chapbook, Black Ballad (Bull City Press, 2022), explores Black female experience and […]

’Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
Are faded and gone;
No flower of her kindred,
No rosebud is nigh,
To reflect back her blushes,
Or give sigh for sigh.
–Thomas Moo […]

Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.’s short-story collection The Boy without a Flag: Tales of the South Bronx (1992)—which this year celebrates its thirty-year publishing anniversary—depicts the hard-luck lives of young resid […]

Linda Rosenkrantz’s creativity in crafting her 1999 memoir of her Bronx childhood as a list inspired us to create our own unconventional review of her work: a series of infographics exploring her book, her J […]