Kim Reynolds

May 29, 2024 | contemporaryand.com | Kim Reynolds

Manyaku Mashilo makes large-scale figurations that concern themselves with ritual, movement, essence, and paths of becoming for Black people. Born 1991 in Limpopo, raised mostly in Pretoria, and based in Cape Town, South Africa, Mashilo studied fashion and developed a practice of abstracting figures before coming full-time to visual art. She drew silhouettes that moved away from literal renderings of “man” or “woman” toward a non-specific figure, a place.

Feb 29, 2024 | johannesburgreviewofbooks.com | Kim Reynolds

Kim M Reynolds considers the historical and the personal in Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s new book Mine Mine Mine, in discussion with the author. Mine Mine Mine Uhuru Portia Phalafala University of Nebraska Press, 2023‘… in guaranteed poverty while unearthing wealth’Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s 2023 collection Mine Mine Mine is a map constructed around many things that can no longer be seen, heard, or mapped.

Oct 3, 2023 | bpl.org | Kim Reynolds

To commemorate Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday on January 19, the BPL is featuring the Rufus W. Griswold Papers, which contains fifty-five letters by or to Edgar Allan Poe, including seven important ones to Griswold. The long-simmering tension between Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) and Rufus W. Griswold (1815-1857) began when Griswold—literary critic, editor, and anthologist—published The Poets and Poetry of America (1842) in which three of Poe’s poems appeared.