New York City––Poetry editor Angela Kinamore of ESSENCE Magazine reversed her role as a subject interviewee for the debut installment of the CREATIVE CONVERSATIN’ interview series, with poet-author Aberjhani, and took on the part of interviewer in the spring 2005 edition of AFRICAN VOICES Magazine.

            Whereas Kinamore was interviewed by Aberjhani, discussing modern trends in literary culture, for his interview series on the web site Black Skylark Z-Ped Music Player (http://www.authorsden.com/aberjhani) it is she who interviews both Aberjhani and Rutgers University lecturer Sandra L. West, coauthors of ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE, in the new African Voices Magazine.

            Entitled “Interview with the Authors of the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance,” the article runs several pages long and examines the challenge of completing the world’s first encyclopedia on the famed cultural and political movement of the 1920s and 1930s. As Kinamore notes in her introduction to the interview, “this important volume, now in its second printing, is one of the most comprehensive scholarly documents on African-American literature ever to be published on this significant era.” The interview also takes a telling look at current trends in writing, publishing, and reading.

            In addition to Kinamore’s interview with Aberjhani and West, the new edition of African Voices features a tribute by Walker Smith to the late actor and activist Ossie Davis. It also includes interviews with: famed literary agent Marie Brown; and, A Love Supreme author, Ashley Kahn. A review of Subtle Changes Dance Company’s production of The Statement-7^th Draft, based on the work of Gil Scott-Heron, an essay on the prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib, a profile of performance arts entrepreneur April Silver, and a large selection of poems and stories help round out the magazine.

            African Voices, published in New York City by Carolyn A. Butts and Layding Kaliba, is available at book stores and culture centers throughout the Tri-State area as well as at Barnes and Noble bookstores nationwide. For more information on the publication, please visit www.africanvoices.com or telephone (212)865-2982.