PromptPress

PromptPress is an online and printed book arts journal publishing writing inspired by visual arts and art inspired by writing.

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Chekwube Danladi is the author of Semiotics, which was selected by Evie Shockley for the 2019 Cave Canem Poetry Prize (forthcoming with UGA Press in 2020). Head over to the PromptPress site to see her response to Brandon Drew Holmes' work.

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@prompt_press PromptPress founding editor Jenny Colville's brilliant essay “White Ink and the Great American Macho” has made @EntropyMag Best of 2019 list. Congratulations, Jenny! Please write more essays for all of us to read.

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Cyree Jarelle Johnson's piercing responses to Brandon Drew Holmes' "I am what I am, And what I am is" and "Tiana" can now be read on the PromptPress website.

"I just came for an apron of gumballs

I told them                 they didn’t hear me. They would not have cared."

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Emily Spencer's written response brings to life a tender aspect of Brandon Drew Holme's evocative images. Follow the link to @prompt_press read her full response.

"i trust not this white
space the page
delineated place
no more suspect black words
i have to give to you"

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Our new website is live! Find featured work curated by An Duplan from The Center for Afrofuturist Studies, as well as Image and Word where Ethan Evans interviews Franky Frances Cannon. While you’re at it, visit our store for a gifts. https://t.co/Zmisj5NMzB

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Proud to see An Duplan, guest editor for the next PromptPress issue, featured in this list of Best American Experimental Writing.