-- Kevin Quashie, author of Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

-- Denise Ferreira da Silva, author of Toward a Global Idea of Race

-- Laura Christine Haynes ARLIS/NA

-- Evie Shockley ISLE

-- Jean-Thomas Tremblay GLQ

"Across all four chapters, Cervenak’s writing weaves in and out of the poetic and the academic, producing a lyrically rigorous and profoundly intricate text. While at times challenging to parse for exactly these reasons, Black Gathering demands of its readers slow reading and an even slower meditative engagement which might prove difficult yet ultimately rewarding for readers unfamiliar with the current scholarship of Black ecologies, Black geographies, ecopoetics, and anti-colonial philosophy. Moreover, her attunement to the potential of gathering and togetherness to enact new modes of being in the world will be valuable to students, scholars, and artists alike who are in search of an expansive theorization on what an ecology or environment could be."
-- Kelann Currie-Williams Lateral

"As a scholar deeply committed to the liberative potential of Black artists, writers, and scholars, Cervenak’s Black Gathering is a reminder that societal structures of oppression are not all encompassing, and there are ways of being otherwise that have always eluded capture."
-- Gervais Marsh Journal of Visual Culture