Lara Dopazo Ruibal and Laura Cesarco Eglin will visit ISU for two events on February 3 to celebrate Dopazo Ruibal’s claus and the scorpion, longlisted for the 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora announced it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to receive a Grants for Arts Projects award of $40,000.
Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora is the recipient of a $50,000 Equity in Verse grant awarded by the Poetry Foundation.
Brigid Ackerman ’17, publishing studies alum, discusses her time at Illinois State and her professional publishing career.
Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora has partnered with the Poetry Project to celebrate the launch of Obsidian’s LGBTQIA+ GenderQueer/ GenreQueer Playground Special Issue.
Obsidian is the recipient of a $12,500 Renewal and Recovery Grant from the Poetry Foundation.
Obsidianis the recipient of a grant awarded by the Amazon Literary Partnership Literary Magazine Fund administered by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.
Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora was named the winner of the 2022 Firecracker Award for Independently Published Literature from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.
Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora is partnering with the Poetry Foundation to present a free two-day online workshop on the role of listening and improvisation in performance.
Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora has been named a finalist for a 2022 Firecracker Award for Independently Published Literature from the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses.
