Cleyvis Natera

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Other Writing

Fiction

Fog
–Ursa

Sugar
–Kenyon Review

Compass
–Gagosian Quarterly

The Odd Difficulty of Sinking
–Memorious 31

Out Loud Audio Selections– Audio
–Curandera, Kenyon Review 

Played or How I Failed at Becoming a Chapiodora
–Kweli Journal

Go Home (Excerpt, Neruda On The Park)
–Aster(ix) Journal

Non-Fiction

Alien Nation
–Harper Collins

Us Against Alzheimers,
–Edited by Marita Golden (“The Echo of Loss” – Cleyvis Natera)

When I was a teen, and English wouldn’t stick, Toni Morrison taught me to read
–Washington Post

On Other Writers

Finding Meaning and Beauty in Rust Belt Decline: An Interview with Idra Novey on Take What You Need
–Post Gazette

A Love That Will Bury Me Alive: Cleyvis Natera Recommends Patricia Engel
–Electric Literature

For Black Girls, Womanhood Comes Too Early: A Review of Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
–New York Times

Heading Straight into Devastation: A Q&A with Reyna Grande
–The Rumpus

A Contemplation on Sorrow and Loss
–A Review of What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy, Aster(ix) Journal

Challenges to the Cult of Masculinity
–A Review of Concrete Rose by Ange Thomas, TIME

Ghostwriter
–A Review of Afterlife by Julia Alvarez, Women’s Review of Books, March/April 2020

Voice Thundering
–A Review of the Poet X, Aster(ix) Journal

Blog Posts

White Supremacy as a Global Problem
–Cupcakes and Cashmere

A Gathering Place
–Kweli Journal

Terrible Teacher’s Gift
–Woman’s National Book Association

Reading Heals A Broken Heart
–Woman’s National Book Association

Features

Cleyvis Natera on Neruda on the Park & Naima Coster on What’s Mine and Yours
–Oprah Daily

Leadership, Art, and Activism
–Cleyvis Natera ’99 on Tang Teaching Museum

Coronavirus NYC
–The New York Times

Love as a Kind of Cure
–Wearedore

Alive At 89, How A New Annual Festival Plans To Memorialize Toni Morrison For Future Generations
–Refinery29

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