by Daemond Arrindell, Ambassador Writers Corps A response to JACK & by Kaneza Schaal & Cornell Alston (May 10–13 at On the Boards)

by Imani Sims, Ambassador Writers Corps A response to Dani Tirrell: Black Bois (Apr 26–29 at On the Boards) We are the gatekeepers, swallowed key lineage budding on black top stages, a wooded breath covered in midnight shade, the full moon an omen of ancestors who mourn the lost stories. …

by Daemond Arrindell, Ambassador Writers Corps A response to Dani Tirrell: Black Bois (Apr 26–29 at On the Boards) Dear Black Bois I see you You who are he and you who are she and you who are they I see you slay I see you slain in the street on the corner Police tape…

by Ryan Diaz, Ambassador Writers Corps A response to Frank Boyd & Libby King: Patti & The Kid (Apr 12–15 at On the Boards) In Patti & The Kid by Frank Boyd, Libby King, and Maya Flory-Barnes Salas, the power of ritual and the inevitability of momentum intersect amidst a…

by Elissa Favero, Ambassador Writers Corps A response to Frank Boyd & Libby King: Patti & The Kid (Apr 12–15 at On the Boards) Earlier this week, the writer Leslie Jamison came to Seattle to read from and speak about her new book, The Recovering: Intoxication and its Aftermath. A…