The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

One of the blessings and curses of my life is that I carry so many projects at the same time.

I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of it, and do we embrace it as a kind of birthright? I do. And yet, I feel deeply connected to at least two homespaces - Jamaica and Ghana, and more recently, South Carolina.

HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a way to deceive ourselves about our invincibility. But it is a delusion.

I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.