Winter
2022
Welcome to the
Hennepin Review
Women, & Nonbinary Artists of Color.
Poets, Artists, Musicians, & Writers.
Tuesday
I am pretending that my left hand is not my left hand, but a left hand. This works, but does not help; because now, I have somebody else’s left hand lying atop my mattress
— Megan Baffoe
ELLA Ezeike ~
Know Her ~
ELLA Ezeike ~ Know Her ~
Ella Ezeike is a Nigerian-American photographer & director based in London. Her work often explores Black family identity & girlhood.
Ella shares her most recent film with the Hennepin Review.
WORDS WE DON’T SAY considers the complexities inherent to the father-daughter relationship.
It is a work of tender genius, & Ella is one to watch.
Aisha Mirza is a writer, DJ, & community worker. Aisha lives on a houseboat in East London & writes about the transformative experience in: A Boat With No Engine.
“A decade ago, the houseboat community in London wasn’t what it is now…it’s since grown into the tens of thousands, boosted by a large surge during the pandemic & accompanying housing crisis which had people barely affording rent … & reevaluating much of the speed & stress & debt of what they had come to consider ‘normal life’.”
who is fatherless
who searches for mother
in lovers but can’t find pussy hard enough to climb
who catches love with her teeth
knots it with tongue swallows hard
.chisaraokwu. is a Cave Canem fellow & an award-winning Igbo poet, actor, & retired physician.
Read her fierce, aching piece for us here.
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.chisaraokwu.
POETRY
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Megan Baffoe
CREATIVE NONFICTION
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Çiğdem Borucu
MUSIC
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Ella Ezeike
FILM
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Elif Gülen
ART
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Aisha Mirza
CREATIVE NON-FICTION