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Articles by Junious Ward
Redaction Driven by Revelation: A Conversation with Crystal Simone Smith
An undeniable pivot point in U.S. History was the sequence of events needed in order to encourage “Americans” to side with the growing movement to separate from British rule. The most successful tactics often included persuasive writing and oration aimed at the average person, appealing to reason and/or capitalizing on fear.
The End is the Place We Begin: A Conversation with Marissa Edwards - The Rumpus
When the world shakes, when powerful people dominate to bolster self-interest, when the political landscape seems to edge ever closer toward a dystopian present, in moments when language somehow fails us, we look to the poets for a guiding light. Marissa Davis’s full length debut, End of Empire, offers us poems that arch and ache toward hope.
Seduced from Line to Line: A Conversation with Christian J. Collier
Grief is a common thing to experience and a difficult thing to write—the vulnerability and honesty it takes to still its convulsions, take a snapshot of a time-frozen scene, and then edit for public consumption without photoshopping out the red-eye or less desirable angles is, at the least, a generous act that embodies what poetry, at its best, can accomplish. Christian J.
Writing a Poem as An Act of Faith: A Conversation with Yalie Saweda Kamara
One could argue that the spirit of rebellion cohabits resilience. This includes rebellion against things that historically seek to limit marginalized people in literature—language, respectability, form. As I read through Yalie Saweda Kamara’s debut poetry collection Besaydoo (Milkweed, 2024), I found myself drawn immediately to themes of place and resilience and, perhaps also, rebellion.
If Being a Man Allowed for Emotion
Skip to main content Poems Find and share the perfect poems. ...it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence - George Eliot My mourning is quiet, stealthy like the pause before bad news. An inherited trait near as I can tell. All the men in my line are instinctually stoic & hidden—brackish bodies, damned at the gates.
2021 Spring Contest Winner: Kodak 4200 Slide Projector Asks If I Ever Held Hands With My Father
_______________________________________________ Junious Ward is a poet living in Charlotte, NC and author of Sing Me A Lesser Wound (Bull City Press). Junious has attended and/or received support from: Breadloaf Writers Conference, Callaloo, The Frost Place and The Watering Hole. His poems have appeared or are upcoming in Four Way Review, Crab Fat Magazine, Lackadaisy Literary Magazine, and Diode Poetry Journal among others.
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