Mahogany L. Browne

Brooklyn

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Articles

A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe

1 month ago | bookbrowse.com | Mahogany L. Browne

Chorus: Wild FireIf you listen closely, you can hear their TV screens pour from the windowpanes, under the apartment doors, and out onto the streets. Everybody is listening to the news, and no one is listening to their hearts. I am Hyacinth. Mi a har best fren, Electra. And we're just two city girls ... Suh yuh sey, Ms. Trini-to-the-bone!Okay, okay. We're two city girls with island roots.
Fable for the End of the World

Jan 2, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | James Robinson |Mahogany L. Browne |Jen Calonita

Ava Reid. HarperCollins, $19.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-321155-1A trained mercenary falls in love with her mark in this grim dystopia from Reid (A Study in Drowning). After undergoing intense physical and psychological reconditioning, teenage Melinoë becomes an assassin for Caerus, the corporation that controls New Amsterdam through civilian debt. Meanwhile, 17-year-old Inesa has spent her life trying to keep her family afloat.
Is It Real? The Loch Ness Monster

Jan 2, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Candace Fleming |James Robinson |Mahogany L. Browne |Jen Calonita

Is It Real? The Loch Ness Monster“You are an investigator for the Black Swan Scientific Investigation (BSSI) team,” Fleming (The Enigma Girls) declares in the opening chapter of this interactive foray into unraveling “the natural world’s greatest mysteries”—in this instance, the legend of the Loch Ness Monster.
Our Lake

Jan 2, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | James Robinson |Mahogany L. Browne |Jen Calonita |Angie Kang

Angie Kang. Kokila, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-593-69823-5Kang debuts with a deeply felt story about siblings returning to a cherished place—“Brother is taking me up to swim in the lake like Father used to.” In loosely painted, expressive gouache, crayon, and colored pencil spreads, two figures head up a slope amid deeply saturated blues, greens, and magentas. The duo prepare to swim in the bright sun: “Brother takes off his shirt. I take off my shirt. Brother stretches.
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe

Jan 1, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Elizabeth Acevedo |Mahogany L. Browne |Olivia Gatwood |James Robinson

Poet Browne (Vinyl Moon) delivers a mournful remembrance of those who died during the pandemic in this love letter to New York City and its resilient teen population as they adjust to a changed world. Beginning with “Chorus: Wild Fire,” Browne introduces best friends Electra and Hyacinth, two “Trini-to-the-bone” city girls who lament unkindness while bolstering their own benevolent attitudes in the face of world tragedy.
Whale Eyes: A Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen

Jan 1, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Edmund Harriss |James Robinson |Mahogany L. Browne |Houston Hughes

Filmmaker Robinson crafts an accessible and immersive account of growing up with strabismus, a condition of eye misalignment that causes difficulties with tracking objects, depth perception, and reading. Intermittent abstract artwork by Rea (Fixing Flamingos) depicts sight tests for readers to engage with throughout and help to illustrate how the subject navigated the world: how strabismus affected his performance in school, how he related to others, and how others perceived him.
I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like

Dec 3, 2024 | haymarketbooks.org | Mahogany L. Browne |Rebecca Carroll |Salamishah Tillet

Thirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conversation with a new generation of writers and readers. The first edition of I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like, published in 1994, remains an essential text for readers of Black feminist literature in all genres.
Black Is Beautiful

Feb 28, 2024 | blackeyedstories.substack.com | Evie Shockley |Danez Smith |Mahogany L. Browne |Jericho Brown

Sometimes we forget Black History Month is not about educating others, it’s about celebrating Blackness in this country. And because Blackness is vast and diasporic, every year for Black History Month a theme is chosen. This year, the theme is African Americans & the Arts. Today 5 poets paired with 5 fine artists.
7 Poetry Collections About the Complexities of Black Womanhood - Electric Literature

Feb 16, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Taylor Byas |Mahogany L. Browne |Tiana Clarke |Jo Lou

I went to a high school with about 1700 students and only 30 of them were Black. My Mama lived in the country—she always had red clay under her nails. She talked with her siblings more than her schoolmates. My Grandma was tugged off the school bus at 14 to help with chores and got her GED when she was 60 years old. As for my grandma on my dad’s side, she grew up in the city surrounded by Black folks; her mother’s experience was the same.
Mahogany L. Browne's Love Letter to Hip-Hop

Aug 1, 2023 | nytimes.com | Mahogany L. Browne |Flo Ngala

I spit game cuz baby I can’t talk it. Warm. Sweating. It’s hot up in this joint. Nelly, “Hot in Herre” (2002)“Hot in Herre” not only was Nelly’s first No. 1 single: It also made the St. Louis rapper the inaugural winner of the Grammy for Best Male Rap Solo Performance — a category that existed for exactly two years alongside Best Female Rap Solo Performance, before they were both folded back into the genderless Best Rap Solo Performance. I don’t budge, don’t want much — just a roof and a porch.