ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with Jeneé Skinner

April 08, 2024

Osasere Edo-Ewansiha Jeneé Skinner has a degree in Creative Writing and went abroad to the University of Oxford to study Renaissance Literature and the Italian Renaissance. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Roxanne Gay’s The Audacity, and elsewhere. Additionally, she won Michigan Quarterly Review’s Jesmyn Ward Prize and was a finalist for the Black Warrior Review’s Fiction Contest. She has ...

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: “All Songs Are Stories”: A Conversation with Tajai Massey about Hip Hop and Storytelling

April 05, 2024

Jennifer Maritza McCauley When I was a college kid at the University of Pittsburgh, joy-eyed and largely a loner, I came across the album Full Circle by the hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics (which includes all of the members of Souls of Mischief, the group behind the groundbreaking 90s hit “93 ‘til Infinity”) at the Phantom of the Attic.  To me, a comic bookstore was a magic land. Phantom of the Attic, sandwiched ...

CONGRATULATIONS TO MITCHELL JACOBS, WINNER OF THE PRUFER POETRY PRIZE!

January 18, 2024

Pleiades congratulates Mitchell Jacobs, winner of this year’s Prufer Poetry Prize, judged by Nicky Beer. He will receive an award of $1,000 and his winning poem, “At the Immersive Van Gogh Multimedia Projection Exhibit,” will be published in the Spring 2024 issue of Pleiades. Mitchell Jacobs is a writer from Minnesota, with work in journals such as Black Warrior Review, the Massachusetts Review, ...

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Two Poems by S.J. Ghaus

December 17, 2023

S. J. Ghaus listen سنو Under The Sargam, The Sea S. J. Ghaus is a Pakistani American writer, artist, and cultural worker for the people. They are a Tin House alum and resident, VONA/Voices of Our Nations fellow, and recipient of the 2020 Vera Meyer Strube Prize from the Academy of American Poets. You can find their work at poets.org, Poetry Daily, Hayden’s ...