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Hopkins Press Podcast 3.6: Kyla Kupferstein Torres on the Future of Callaloo

Hopkins Press Podcast - Kyla Kupferstein Torres on the Future of Callaloo

On this episode of The Hopkins Press Podcast, we introduce you to Kyla Kupferstein Torres, the new executive editor of Callaloo, the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora. This year, she took the reins of from the founding editor Charles H. Rowell, who founded Callaloo in 1976 and cultivated the journal into a vital voice for original work by and about writers and visual artists of African descent worldwide. We talk with Kyla Kupferstein Torres about the legacy of Callaloo and the exciting plans she has for the journal's new era.

To accompany this podcast, we're providing a supplementary reading list, highlighting some of the great pieces Callaloo has published over the years. 
 

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Music for this episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast is “le train sur du velours” by Jean Toba, licensed under an Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License and available at Free Music Archive. 

 

 

Written by: Rahne Alexander
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Tags: Journals African American Literature Poetry Fiction Art Cultural Criticism
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