Poetry Wales 59.3, Spring 2024, is due out in March. In anticipation of this issue, the first of our three 2024 issues to feature a contributing editor partnership with the Obsidian Foundation, we would like to introduce you to our two contributing editors, Taylor Edmonds and Tangie Mitchell
Poetry Wales is grateful to New Audiences funding from the Books Council of Wales/Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru for enabling six contributing editors to join us in 2024. In partnership with the Obsidian Foundation, three Welsh writers – Taylor Edmonds, Des Mannay and Kandace Siobhan Walker – will network with three Obsidian Foundation alumni – Tangie Mitchell, Fahad Al-Amoudi, and Zakia Carpenter-Hall. Taylor Edmonds and Tangie Mitchell will work on issue 59.3 (Spring 2024). Des Mannay and Fahad Al-Amoudi will solicit poems and pitches for issue 60.1 (Summer 2024). Kandace Siobhan Walker and Zakia Carpenter-Hall will work on issue 60.2 (Winter 2024).
Taylor Edmonds
Taylor Edmonds (she/her) is a poet, writer and creative facilitator from South Wales. Her work explores themes of womanhood, identity, connection, nature and empowerment. Taylor’s debut poetry pamphlet Back Teeth is out now with Broken Sleep Books. Through her creative workshop series, Writing for Joy, Taylor aims to improve the accessibility of creative writing to marginalised communities. She was the 21-22 Poet in Residence for the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, creatively exploring the issues surrounding the Well-being of Future Generations Act in Wales. She has received a Rising Stars Award from Literature Wales and Firefly Press for her writing for young people. Taylor is currently working on her debut YA fiction novel.
She has previously acted as Contributing Editor for Poetry Wales 58.2, Winter 2022
Of the Spring issue, Taylor says:
This issue delves into the theme of ‘home in a time of ecological emergency’, speaking to the legacies of colonialism and its ecological destruction, and considering the world’s past, present and future, featuring some of the most exciting voices in poetry from across the globe.
You can follow Taylor on Twitter @tayloredmonds, and Instagram also @tayloredmonds. Her website is tayloredmonds.co.uk
Watch Taylor’s short film We Echo here:
Tangie Mitchell
Tangie Mitchell (she/her) is a poet and editor from North Carolina. Her current manuscript is an ekphrastic mediation on Black American girlhood as a vehicle to discuss (and complicate) notions of citizenship, tradition, and belonging. Writing about Black, working-class life in the American South, her work has been featured in Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, Exposition Review, Aunt Chloe: A Journal of Artful Candor, and more. A Watering Hole Poetry Fellow and Obsidian Foundation alum, her poetry has received support from the Cave Canem Foundation, the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, Murphy Writing at Stockton University, and other art institutions. She holds an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Harlem, New York.
You can follow Tangie on Twitter @tangelina_jolie and on Instagram @tangelina.jolie
Read her recent work SYNERGY here:
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