Mildred K. Barya

Mildred K. Barya is a writer from Uganda and Assistant Professor of creative writing and world literature at University of North Carolina at Asheville. Her publications include three poetry books, as well as fiction, creative nonfiction, poems, and hybrids forthcoming or published in Joyland, the Cincinnati Review, the Georgia ReviewAfrican American ReviewNowhere, Ruminate MagazineTin House, Obsidian, Poem-a-Day, Poetry Quarterly, Asymptote, Matters of Feminist Practice Anthology, Prairie Schooner, New Daughters of Africa International AnthologyPer Contra, and Northeast Review. She blogs here and is at work on a collection of nonfiction essays.

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Cast Over Gorée Island

Mildred K. Barya  | 
Issue 71.2 Spring 2022

Hope absent from the Door— last point of departure, home to all they’ve known. The child is exchanged for a mirror, its mother a bottle of rum, and the man a gun. Atlantic sharks that wouldn’t eat every day or even choose humans swallow samples. Taste buds are forever changed, millions of […]

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Waterborne Feelings

Behind The Poem | Mildred K. Barya

Mildred Barya reflects on visiting Gorée Island, bearing witness at the Door of No Return, and writing ancestral trauma.