History & Politics

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Cornelius Eady: Selections
By L. Renée
Distinguished and innovative poet, playwright, and mentor
Article
I Placed My Fate in Hard Hands
By Robert Rubsam
Else Lasker-Schüler, a darling of Berlin’s avant-garde, fought to define herself—even through tragedy and exile.
Poem
The Part About Fate or Counterpoint
By Sylvia Chan
I want to begin this poem with two stories:1. In 1984, my mother was pulled over for speeding in a rural...
Poem
In 1989, the US Government Began Using Video Games to Teach Soldiers Warfare. They Admit It Ten Years Later.
By Letta Neely
this concrete here is where my brother’s last breath left his body began to circulate elsewhere; some...
Poem
Mother Emanuel Nine: Their Influence Was Wide
By Cheryl Clarke
Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Nine Senior pastor state senator Name meaning “merciful...
Poem
The Book of Frank [“the sign read”]
By CAConrad
the sign read
HARMACY after
Frank shot
the P out
Poem
Mrs. Butterworth, Uncle Ben & Aunt Jemima
By Frank X. Walker
...walk into a bar in America. Butterworth says, I’m being repackaged. Ben says, I’m being rebranded...
Poem
The Ophany
By Cyrus Console
Rotor wash, or the downward-flowing Air by which our helicopters formed Imprints in the jungle grass beneath ...
Article
Federico García Lorca’s “Dreamwalking Ballad”
By Sarah Arvio
Metaphor in Lorca is a form of gorgeous shorthand.
Poem
Nylon, Black, ’72
By Ariana Brown
I don’t know why most mexicans in my hood wore nike cortez’s– why the breakers in my crew polished ‘...
Article
Tristan Tzara: Survival and “Speaking Alone”
By Heather Green
Silence and speech in post-war France
Poem
Silent Spread
By S.J. Fowler & Rebecca Kamen
SIR, the 28 spheres of Kamen’s harmony Susceptible, inferred, immense, actual - the electron microscopy...
Poem
Ode to Facemasks
By Xi Chuan
If I could, I would put on a facemask and walk into the desert to meet with fairies and angels. I put...
Poem
America, I Am
By James Cagney
I come from the kidnapped, the assaulted— my country’tis of reparations as in-store credit backordered...
Poem
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By Layli Long Soldier
Here, the sentence will be respected. I will compose each sentence with care, by minding what the rules...
Poem
From “Letters to Ukraine”
By Yuri Andrukhovych
But Ukraine is a country of the baroque. Traveling through it is a pleasure for the eye. And that’s why the temptation...
Poem
From “Листи в Україну”
By Yuri Andrukhovych
Україна ж—це країна бароко. Мандрувати нею—для ока втіха. І тому западає спокуса в око: зруйнувати в...
Article
Metamorphoses: “Erysichthon” by Ovid and “Erysichthon’s Seed” by Shanta Lee
By Shanta Lee
Race, Class, Gender, and the Imperial Body
Poem
Erysichthon’s Seed
By Shanta Lee
Hunger like her mama Most strong in White gaze as in a Cowbird’s flirtation Sprouted in eyes to tongues to bellies...
Poem
Border Wisdom
By Ahmad Almallah
the world is not as bad as our neighbors made it to be that day— we’ve seen worse days— and how beautiful...

p1In 1989, the US Government Began Using Video Games to Teach Soldiers Warfare. They Admit It Ten Years Later.

p1Mother Emanuel Nine: Their Influence Was Wide

p1From “Letters to Ukraine”

p1From “Листи в Україну”

In 1989, the US Government Began Using Video Games to Teach Soldiers Warfare. They Admit It Ten Years Later.

Mother Emanuel Nine: Their Influence Was Wide

From “Letters to Ukraine”

From “Листи в Україну”