The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams
PBS Summer Wildcard 2019 Karen Leeder “Not One Step Back”

“Not One Step Back”

telephone exchanges with sexy names – occasionally drawing on his Jewish experience to give context to his depiction of a modern world where violence explodes with increasing fury and the sirens rarely stop

The obscure audience of the reader is never out of sight

these pieces offer hopeful re-conceptions of ‘shared foreignness’ as Lila Matsumoto describes it

The schema is pitch-perfect in its lyric adaptations and wholly original in the way it incorporates a narrative of images to its purpose

The Half-God of Rainfall by Inua Ellams <br><b>PBS Summer Wildcard 2019</b> Karen Leeder “Not One Step Back”From the award winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge. There is something about Demi. When this boy is angry, rain clouds gather. When he cries, rivers burst their banks and the first time he takes a shot on a basketball court, the deities of the land take note. His mother, Modupe, looks on with a mixture of pride and worry. From