Conversations
with
Azo Vauguy, translated by Todd Fredson, with a discussion by Todd Fredson, Honora Ankong, and Carmen Giménez Smith. Plume.
Todd Fredson: An Interview by Paul Cunningham. Action Books.
“The Narrator is Also the Listener,” an interview with Todd Fredson. Superstition Review.
A Conversation with Todd Fredson. Waxwing.
Miraculous constructions: Todd Fredson on Ivorian oral traditions. Jacket2.
by
At the Algorithmic Rabbit Hole: An Interview with Fady Joudah. Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary
Essays & Reviews
Josué Guébo's Arrival as a Poet of the "Second Independence" Movement: Integrating West African Oral Traditions, Zouglou Conscience, and Césaire's Surrealism. The Saharan Journal at the National Institute for African Studies.
Markers of Segregation: Previewing Tanella Boni's Là òu il fait si clair en moi / There where it's so clear in me. American Poetry Review 50.3.
Depthfinding: Previewing Henri-Michele Yéré's Mil Neuf Cent Quatre-Vingt-Dix / Nineteen Ninety. American Poetry Review 50.3.
The Politics of Myth: Previewing Azo Vauguy's Zakwato. American Poetry Review 50.3.
Les Chemins: an introduction to contemporary Ivorian poetry. Jacket2.
Casting the New Cote d'Ivoire: Ethnic Assertion and West African Orature in Azo Vauguy's Zakwato. Research in African Literatures 51.3.
Muting Minority Poetics in the Eighties: The Self-Silencing Model of the White Male Lyric. Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary.
Two Reviews and a Spectral Interlude: Heredities, Flood Song, and Incantations. American Poetry Review 48.5.
The Most Dangerous Crossing: Reconstituting Nationality in Josué Guébo’s Songe à Lampedusa. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts.
"Hear the Murmuring Birds?": A Reading of Louise Mathias's The Traps. In Review at The Volta.
Til Death Do Us Part: Approaching Josué Guébo's My country, tonight. Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary.
To the Touch: Emmanuel Levinas's 'Dark Light' in the Poetry of Paul Celan. Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary.
Caesuras and White Space: Room for the Reader. Passages North.
Nonfiction
The Festival of Whips. Warscapes.
Poems
[Erratum: Found Ecology Piece]. Poem-a-Day.
Heckling Paradise; History Offers No Instruction; Anniversaire; A Toast.
Prairie Schooner 90.1.
Ivoirité; Getting Stoned at the Mission, Waiting for Permission to Leave Abidjan;
Day-long Swerve; Departure Lyric; Aid. American Poetry Review 45.2.
Médicaments. Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art 53.
Late Summer, To the Bride; Gaunt Pleasures; Rain Off the Gulf of Guinea; The
Sorting Grounds. The Nashville Review.
Century Worm. Slush Pile.
Mistress (1); Mistress (2): Teeter-totter; Vietnam. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts.
Translations
excerpt from Polo kouman/Polo parle, finalist for 2023 Grand Prix Littéraire d’Afrique Noire, by Henri-Michel Yéré.
Audio recordings in Nouchi, French, and English. Modern Poetry in Translation.
On the hill by Tanella Boni. World Literature Today.
excerpt from Poeticizing the world to come by Tanella Boni. Action Books blog.
Variation on primal time by Véronique Tadjo. Action Books blog.
Portraits of Colonial Entanglement: Contemporary Afro-Francophone Translations. American Poetry Review 50.3.
Moon-faced cynical egos by Tanella Boni. Adi Magazine.
excerpt from The future has an appointment with the dawn by Tanella Boni. EuropeNow.
excerpt from Think of Lampedusa by Josué Guébo. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts.
excerpt from Think of Lampedusa by Josué Guébo. Boston Review.
excerpt from My country, tonight by Josué Guébo. The Offending Adam.
with
Azo Vauguy, translated by Todd Fredson, with a discussion by Todd Fredson, Honora Ankong, and Carmen Giménez Smith. Plume.
Todd Fredson: An Interview by Paul Cunningham. Action Books.
“The Narrator is Also the Listener,” an interview with Todd Fredson. Superstition Review.
A Conversation with Todd Fredson. Waxwing.
Miraculous constructions: Todd Fredson on Ivorian oral traditions. Jacket2.
by
At the Algorithmic Rabbit Hole: An Interview with Fady Joudah. Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary
Essays & Reviews
Josué Guébo's Arrival as a Poet of the "Second Independence" Movement: Integrating West African Oral Traditions, Zouglou Conscience, and Césaire's Surrealism. The Saharan Journal at the National Institute for African Studies.
Markers of Segregation: Previewing Tanella Boni's Là òu il fait si clair en moi / There where it's so clear in me. American Poetry Review 50.3.
Depthfinding: Previewing Henri-Michele Yéré's Mil Neuf Cent Quatre-Vingt-Dix / Nineteen Ninety. American Poetry Review 50.3.
The Politics of Myth: Previewing Azo Vauguy's Zakwato. American Poetry Review 50.3.
Les Chemins: an introduction to contemporary Ivorian poetry. Jacket2.
Casting the New Cote d'Ivoire: Ethnic Assertion and West African Orature in Azo Vauguy's Zakwato. Research in African Literatures 51.3.
Muting Minority Poetics in the Eighties: The Self-Silencing Model of the White Male Lyric. Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary.
Two Reviews and a Spectral Interlude: Heredities, Flood Song, and Incantations. American Poetry Review 48.5.
The Most Dangerous Crossing: Reconstituting Nationality in Josué Guébo’s Songe à Lampedusa. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts.
"Hear the Murmuring Birds?": A Reading of Louise Mathias's The Traps. In Review at The Volta.
Til Death Do Us Part: Approaching Josué Guébo's My country, tonight. Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary.
To the Touch: Emmanuel Levinas's 'Dark Light' in the Poetry of Paul Celan. Matter: A Journal of Political Poetry and Commentary.
Caesuras and White Space: Room for the Reader. Passages North.
Nonfiction
The Festival of Whips. Warscapes.
Poems
[Erratum: Found Ecology Piece]. Poem-a-Day.
Heckling Paradise; History Offers No Instruction; Anniversaire; A Toast.
Prairie Schooner 90.1.
Ivoirité; Getting Stoned at the Mission, Waiting for Permission to Leave Abidjan;
Day-long Swerve; Departure Lyric; Aid. American Poetry Review 45.2.
Médicaments. Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art 53.
Late Summer, To the Bride; Gaunt Pleasures; Rain Off the Gulf of Guinea; The
Sorting Grounds. The Nashville Review.
Century Worm. Slush Pile.
Mistress (1); Mistress (2): Teeter-totter; Vietnam. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts.
Translations
excerpt from Polo kouman/Polo parle, finalist for 2023 Grand Prix Littéraire d’Afrique Noire, by Henri-Michel Yéré.
Audio recordings in Nouchi, French, and English. Modern Poetry in Translation.
On the hill by Tanella Boni. World Literature Today.
excerpt from Poeticizing the world to come by Tanella Boni. Action Books blog.
Variation on primal time by Véronique Tadjo. Action Books blog.
Portraits of Colonial Entanglement: Contemporary Afro-Francophone Translations. American Poetry Review 50.3.
Moon-faced cynical egos by Tanella Boni. Adi Magazine.
excerpt from The future has an appointment with the dawn by Tanella Boni. EuropeNow.
excerpt from Think of Lampedusa by Josué Guébo. Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts.
excerpt from Think of Lampedusa by Josué Guébo. Boston Review.
excerpt from My country, tonight by Josué Guébo. The Offending Adam.