Callaloo executive editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres at NYC’s Whitney Museum of American Art, pictured with Amy Sherald’s "Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)," which graced the cover of Callaloo Vol. 39, No. 2! The Whitney is exhibiting Sherald's work through 8/10. whitney.org/exhibitions/...

Who is your favorite living Black essayist or memoirist? What essays or memoirs are most compelling to you? . . . (✨The 1st and 10th people to respond will a FREE copy of our newest issue, a special Black Britain issue guest-edited by Jason Allen-Paisant and Karen McCarthy Woolf!!✨)

Happy Juneteenth!

"Disaster enthralls us," writes Rita Dove as she ponders the shock and loss of a devastating house fire, part of the Summer 2008 special issue of @CallalooJournal devoted to Dove's work and influence Read "The Fire This Time" free on @ProjectMUSE thru 30 June tinyurl.com/3b7pk83w

In a classic @callaloojournal.bsky.social essay, Trudier Harris explores the historical significance of Emily D. West, the 19th-century Black woman who is arguably the subject of the beloved song, “The Yellow Rose of Texas" Read free thru 30 June at @ProjectMUSE tinyurl.com/3ezp94du

Come on, @nytimes.com, that was too easy!! 😉

@callaloojournal founder & longtime editor Dr. Charles H. Rowell was honored with this year's PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing Executive editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres accepted on his behalf at the May 8 ceremony Read all about it at the Newsroom Blog: tinyurl.com/muaby8bt

Our founder, Dr. Charles Rowell, was recently honored with @penamerica.bsky.social's Nora/Magid Award for Magazine Editing! 🎉🎉Our executive editor, Kyla Kupferstein Torres, was there to accept the award on Dr. Rowell’s behalf.

CALLALOO 42.4 contributor Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond sent these photos from The Library of Africa and the African Diaspora in Accra, Ghana, where many back issues of CALLALOO are archived in the Professor lan H. Munro collection! Find more information on the Munro collection at loatad.org/library.

We loved to see Amy Sherald's "Miss Everything (Unsuppressed Deliverance)" on the March 24 cover of The New Yorker! It also appeared on the cover of Callaloo's Vol. 39.2 in 2016! Do you have a favorite Callaloo cover? Take a shot and share it with us!

We're thrilled to announce our new partnership with Brown University!

📣📣Interested in working with Callaloo? We're looking for a full-time managing editor. Might that be you? Applicants are encouraged to apply by March 24th. Find complete details here: bit.ly/4iyvn0k

Congratulations to all the winners of The American Academy of Arts & Letters awards, including Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop alum Jamel Brinkley & Callaloo contributors Rowan Ricardo Phillips & Johny Pitts! www.artsandletters.org/news?slug=20...

Congratulations to CALLALOO contributor Torli Bush! Torli's work appears in our special double issue on Black Appalachia, guest-edited by Crystal Wilkinson. Order the issue at www.press.jhu.edu/journals/car...

Our Executive Editor, @kylakt.bsky.social, was interviewed for the latest episode of the JHUP Podcast! Available wherever you get your podcasts & at bit.ly/40PNMyz. Kyla & JHUP also pulled together an epic reading list spanning CALLALOO's decades, most free to read thru 2/29!: bit.ly/4gC3oeG