Read the latest peek behind the curtain from Popscure writer Jerome Spencer with independent literature press, Back Patio. I generally just review books I like. No one assigns me books or solicits my endorsement…and I certainly don’t get free books from publicists (anymore). I review a book when only I am compelled to tell others…
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Support #StopAsianHate GoFundMe – a central GoFundMe page with fundraisers to support the AAPI community. Stop AAPI Hate – a site dedicated to tracking hate crimes against the AAPI community. Asian American Legal Defense Fund – a NY-based organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the civil rights of Asian Americans. 61 Ways to Donate in…
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Embark on a one-of-a-kind expedition through time to Slawstrips Kalb–“a hyper-satiric alternate reality” where the audience is subject to the “Black American life” by way of four teenagers working through the challenges brought on by “the choices they make and temptations they follow.” Written, composed, and directed by the Newport News Contemporary Arts Network’s (CAN)…
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This month’s submissions include a poignant poem (“This Ain’t Even A Poem”) and beautiful art piece (“Love is Thicker Than Blood”) by Chesapeake artist, A-Rae. To submit your experience for next month click here. A-Rae | 34 | Chesapeake, VA (by way of Cleveland, OH) “This Ain’t Even A Poem” A-Rae | 34 | Chesapeake,…
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Support the resistance, Black lives matter! We’ve made a handy list of good places to donate to during this time. If you have any you’d like to suggest, please email us at popscuremedia@gmail.com Reclaim the Block Black Visions Collective Minnesota ACLU Louisville NAACP Atlanta NAACP NAACP Minneapolis NAACP (National) Women for Political Change (WFPC) CTUL…
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This week we lost Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician who was an integral part of the United States race to space. Her calculations were so spot-on that astronaut John Glenn requested she double-check behind the NASA computers to make sure all the math was correct. In her 35-year career, she broke down racial and social…
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Hi friends, it’s been a minute. As this decade closes and new one begins, much reflection has taken place. A whole 10 years – that’s truly how long I’ve been doing this shit. Flash back to 2010, my junior year of high school, when my concert buddies Trey and Ryan invited me to contribute to…
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No, not that Hank Williams, but the protagonist “could be effortlessly interchanged with the final note of a really sad, heartbreaking, old-fashioned country song.” The trip is a dizzying, visceral journey through the mind, led by a cat named Sid in van they call Nancy.
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Big Bruiser Dope Boy’s new book of poetry is staggering in its power and sentiment. It’s not heartbreaking, it’s soul crushing.
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The collection of fictions from some authors we’ve covered before and someone we haven’t deliver stories that might not be real, but are so real.
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