phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Fall 2010 issue, "Ekphrasis: A Conversation Between Poets & Writers" featuring essays by Thom Donovan, Theresa Ann White, Ryan Welsh, Patricia Smith, Peter Laufer and Tim Wise, including a wide range of poets and artists.

phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Summer 2010 issue, "The Lavender Issue: LGBT Literature Today" is guest edited by award-winning poet, Timothy Liu, featuring poets Eileen Myles, Edward Field, Mary Meriam, Roberto Tejada and others. Essays by Ana Louise Keating, David Bergman and NS.

phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Spring 2011 issue, "Spring Has Returned: A Season of Renewal" features poets Walter Bargen, Wyn Cooper, Susan Deer Cloud, Linh Dinh, Rachel Hadas, Chloe Honum, Hope Houghton, Joe Jimenez, Yuri Kageyama, Suji Kwock Kim, Jay Leeming, Marjorie Maddox, Nathan...

phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Fall 2011 issue, "Bridging the Cultural Divide: Remembering September 11th," features over 60 poets, including: Ada A. Aharoni, Elmaz Abinader, Nan Hunt, Naomi Shihab Nye, Neil Weisbrod, Penny Cagan, Philip Metres, Purvi Shah, Qais Arsala, Ronny Someck,...

HEY YO YO SOY 40 YEARS OF NUYORICAN STREET POETRY, A BILINGUAL EDITION is a 386-page collection, comprised of three previously published books, "Casting Long Shadows" (1970), "Have You Seen Liberation" (1971), and "Street Poetry & Other Poems" (1972), consist of stories about growing up Puerto Rican in New York City's El Barrio. Melendez has long been considered one of the founders of the Nuyorican Movement and the political, intellectual and linguistic topics he approaches in his work remain extremely relevant to this day. Forward by Samuel Diaz and Carmen M. Pietri-Diaz; Translator's...

phati'tude Literary Magazine is a quarterly publication that publishes poetry, fiction and essays written by both emerging and established writers of diverse origins whose works exhibit social, political and cultural awareness. Published by the Intercultural Alliance of Artists & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS) a NY-based nonprofit organization. Our Summer 2011 issue, "Summer Sixties Special," featuring poets Jeffrey Alfier, Victor Enns, Debbie Okun Hill, Ja A. Jahannes, Lisa Morriss-Andrews and Changming Yuan. Interviews of Janice Mikrikitani, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Aimee Suzara, Elizabeh Bradfield,...

BRANCHES OF THE TREE OF LIFE is the first comprehensive volume of poems by Abiodun Oyewole, many of them never before published. Oyewoles poems are powerful, often political, always lyrical and profoundly moving. Over the course of his forty year career and his long affiliation with The Last Poets, Oyewole is one of several poets credited for liberating American poetry by creating open, vocal, spontaneous, energetic and uncensored vernacular verse that paved the way for spoken word and Hip Hop. Using the spiritual, the sacred and the mystical, Oyewole often turns to the tree as a symbol of...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? BREAKING THE WHITE CODE OF SILENCE, A COLLECTION OF PERSONAL NARRATIVES, is a collection that asks just that. While the literature on whiteness has long been dominated by an academic point of view, editors Gabrielle David and Sean Frederick Forbes came to the realization that there was an unmet need for an anthology of personal narratives about race and culture from the perspective of white Americans. In this conception process, WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? was born.

The first of its kind, this collection of 82 personal...