March
2022
“Big histories. I know these. But I also know some small ones: my broken-down car, my shattered pan of eyeshadow, my lost sweater. My parents. Myself. My dead cactus, over-watered. Listen: what if everybody wrote their personal histories in the corners of big old books? … Notes to self, and notes to others.”
— Divya Maniar
Six
Women, & Non-Binary Artists of Color.
Poets, Filmmakers, Musicians, & Writers.
Welcome to the Hennepin Review.
Exodus Oktavia Brownlow
is a Mississippi-based poet. She is at work on her first novel.
Read her prose piece:
Technically, I’m a Poet Now, and/so I Think It’s My Turn to Write Something About the Moon.
“I know that the moon is a pie, because it is made with crust. And things made from crust are supposed to be filled-up, to be given back to. But all we ever do is take from the moon.”
— Exodus Oktavia Brownlow
"Art is political. And if your art is apolitical, that also says something about how you see the world." — Anu Valia.
“I am sure I died during the exorcism but that’s not why we are here.”
— Phodiso Modirwa
“a girl longs
to hear her father
sing her eulogies around the table,
hold out his arm
& toss her a gun. a day
when the sun paints
lilac at noon & does
a madness in starched cold.”
— Chidinma Iwu
Hennepin Review stand out.
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Anu Valia
FILM
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Chidinma Iwu
POETRY
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C.J. Anderson
FICTION
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Divya Maniar
FICTION
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Exodus Octavia Brownlow
MICRO-PROSE
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Phodiso Modirwa
FLASH FICTION