Written by Alan KingSeptember 29, 2017September 29, 2017

POINT BLANK Reviewed in Run and Tell That Magazine

I’m grateful to Run & Tell That magazine for this close reading and review of POINT BLANK: Art collides with personal experience collides with history and the violence of segregation becomes the pain of diaspora becomes the destruction of war. This slippage is where King pushes the limits of ekphrasis and turns Point Blank’s poems […]

Written by Alan KingNovember 4, 2015November 4, 2015

What the PLUCK!

Here’s the rundown on this journal, according to the editorial team: pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture, takes its name from a Nikky Finney poem of the same title which appeared in RICE. The journal features poetry, prose, and visual art from writers who identify with multicultural experiences based in the Appalachian region. The journal was founded by […]

Alan W. King

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POINT BLANK Reviewed in Run and Tell That Magazine

What the PLUCK!