Broadsides

A review of When We Are Kin: The History and Future of Afro-Indigenous Solidarity by Kyle T. Mays. Haymarket Books, 2026. A book subtitled The History and Future of Afro-Indigenous Solidarity might be expected to open on a scene of communion. Kyle T. Mays opens instead on a scene of its breakdown. In the first few . . .

The robe hangs from melike a dark green riverthat has traveledthrough iron gates,through winters of counting,through the long vocabulary of restriction. And now— see how the old cathedral lightcannot help itself.It pours over my shouldersas if the morning itselfhad been waitingfor this walk. Seventy-six years oldand still the heartopening like a wildflowerthrough . . .

There will never be an endTo this droning of the surf.-Wallace Stevens, “Fabliau of Florida” Where the pelicans glide overheadAnd the whitecaps foam up like beer heads,There’s a cold one for you.Try a Florida brewBy the shore with your beach blanket spread. 1Keep this Fish Camp Pils chilled within reachFor your revelries . . .