Volume Five: Chapter Twenty - Our Conversation with Ajanaé Dawkins

In Volume Five: Chapter Twenty, we welcomed Ajanae Dawkins.Ajanaé is a poet, conceptual artist and theologian. She works through poetry, visual art, performance, and audio to explore the politics of faith, grief, and intimate relationships between Black women. As a theologian, she blends cultural criticism, memoir, and theology as autotheory to consider the relationship between Black church history, spirituality, and creation. Her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, the Indiana Review, Frontier Poetry, The BreakBeat Poets Black Girl Magic Anthology and more. Her solo-exhibition, No One Teaches Us How To Be Daughters, debuted at Urban Arts Space in 2024. Her chapbook, BLOOD-FLEX, won the New Delta Review’s Chapbook prize and is forthcoming in Spring 2025. Contact Ajanae:Instagram: @moonsatdusk Website: ajanaedawkins.comRecorded Spoken Word Performances Featured Include:FreeQuency – The Seven Deadly American Sins Instagram: @freequencyspeaks        Website: freequencyspeaks.comYa Ya Poet– Ling LingInstagram: @yayazhangpoetBlack Chakra – PassInstagram: @blackchakra88Ajanaé Dawkins  – When Viola Davis WonAjanaé Dawkins  – For The Blonde Girl and the Classroom of Ghosts Support the show