New Lit on the Block :: Mandala
Mandala Journal, a publication of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia, defines itself as “an online student-run multicultural journal for poets, writers, artists, and thinkers.”
The first online issue launched April 14 and includes a conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah, poems by Cave Canem poet Raina Leon, a short story by Philippine playwright and fiction writer, Peter Mayshle, an essay by academic/artist Shanti Pillai about living each year in Havana, NYC, and Chennai, a photo essay by Toronto-based photographer Jose Romelo Lagman exploring “Rooted Cosmopolitanism”, art and writing from Athens Clark Co. elementary school students PLUS work by writers and artists across the US and Canada whose works were selected via open submissions.
