LaWanda Walters

LaWanda Walters is the author of a forthcoming book of poems, Light Is the Odalisque, selected by Pamela Uschuk and William Pitt Root for the Silver Concho Series at Press 53. Her “Goodness in Mississippi,” originally published in The Georgia Review (Winter 2013) was chosen by Sherman Alexie for Best American Poetry 2015.

—After Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool,” with thanks to Terrance Hayes My friend said I wasn’t fat but she was, and we would go on that way, back and forth. She was my first real friend, the kind who changes everything. Her mother was so cool, didn’t shave down there for […]

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Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

The Lonely Ruralist

The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

“A Starting Point” (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

on Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 by John Koethe

on Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

on The Prime Anniversary by Jay Wright

on Unsun by Andrew Zawacki

on Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

on Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of...