ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: “Mother Goose” by Jenee Skinner

April 11, 2024

Read an interview with the author here. Jeneé Skinner Mother Goose An old woman gave birth to four eggs. Gold and cradled by tree roots and ribbons inside her house. Their births were ugly, complicated by forceps and fluorescent lighting, but the loving made it worth it. Their father was more forest than man, belonging everywhere and to no one. He invited her to his pond where they swam in moonlight and ...

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, ...