Larry Sparks: Make The Past Serve the Future
Riverwise is a community-led/driven/created social justice magazine emerging from organizing, arts, culture & liberation work being done in Detroit and beyond.
Summer
2026
- Editorial by Megan Douglass: Still Waters Run Deep: Cultivating Collective Conscious & Conscience
- Help Riverwise Stay Free of Charge and Ad Free!
- Valerie Jean: April 2026 – The People’s Potluck
- Baba Wayne Curtis Edited by Kristian Davis Bailey: Artist Statement -“Driven by the Movement”
- Raina Rising: Movement Meditations
- Hoda Z. M. Amer: Dreams Of
- Mary Kamal Gagnon: White Grief
- Julia Cuneo: A Movement Family
- Owólabi Aboyade: Dear Young Detroit: “a foundation ain’t the answer”
- Abraham Paulos: The War Ant App
- Sacred Spaces- Art from the Detroit 2050: Future Beyond Billionaires Exhibition
- CHii Thee Last Poet: We Have Had Enough
- Josmine Evans: Healing with Hibiscus – Refreshing Mind, Memory and Movement with Tea
- Breanna Krywko: Motor City
- Haikus By Eric
- The Hydra Mutual Fund: Centering The Solidarity of Choice
- Erin Posas: Every Day
- Marilyn Lowen: Detroit Elder Haiku
- John G. Rodwan, Jr. Poetry
- Valerie Jean Blakely: The world is burning, and all I want to do is watch the birds.
- Larry Sparks: Make The Past Serve the Future
- Benni Aho: The Paris of The West
- Bryce Grubbs: RAGE → LOVE
- Bill Wylie-Kellermann: (Un)Forgotten: Memory as Resistance and Resurrection
- Interview by Erin Posas: “Detroit Got D Power”: From ghettotech to transit justice, artist DUANE is making big moves.
- Keeping Memory: How Storytellers Respond During Urgent Time: A Conversation with Cornetta Lane Smith and Ifayomí Chistine
- Ava Ballew Poetry
