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...
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- He was jailed for cruelty to insects, and his agent wasn’t answering the phone, so he stayed awake in...
- By Erik TschekunowSix times every day we stand at the thresholds of our cells to be counted, to be matched against the...
- By J. V. CunninghamPlato, despair! We prove by norms How numbers bear Empiric forms, How random wrong Will average right...
- By Kevin PruferThe brutality of those two men who broke into her apartment and murdered her boyfriend, then, as she...
- By Aria AberOver Skype, I try to document my mother’s bald-shaved youth—she has a surplus in truths, and science...
- By James CagneyI come from the kidnapped, the assaulted— my country’tis of reparations as in-store credit backordered...
- By Emily BrontëO transient voyager of heaven! O silent sign of winter skies! What adverse wind thy sail has driven...
- By Shanta LeeHunger like her mama Most strong in White gaze as in a Cowbird’s flirtation Sprouted in eyes to tongues to bellies...
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- By OvidSome are transformed just once And live their whole lives after in that shape. Others have a facility...
- By CAConradmelting glaciers frighten me when appearing on my street as downpours a feeling I send ahead of myself...
- By Evie ShockleyAnd now, reader, I come to a period in my unhappy life, which I would gladly forget if I could. Asia Graves looks...
- By Janelle Tanthe card machine is broken again. on the platform, a boy jumps the turnstile behind me. i notice him...
- By Patricia Smith"I seen it lots of times, I seen it, just from being on the street when something new was going down...
- By Patricia SmithWhen a bullet enters the brain, the head explodes. I can think of no softer warning for the mothers ...
- By Crystal Simone SmithHe was an open book. An opening book. That had just been opened up somewhat wider. By sorrow. And-by...
- By Donna Aza Weir-SoleyLights, camera, action! Cue George Floyd crying for his Black mother for 8 minutes and 46 seconds. 8 minutes and...
- By Jason McCallProbably one of those understated pieces. Simple silver. No ring of laurels surrounding an emperor or...
- By Jacqueline Allen TrimbleQ. How do others sin against you? A. By cursing me—telling lies about me—or striking me. Q. What must you do to...
- By Aliyah CottonIs prepare a lynching. It cannot intercept the man, woman, or child as they make their way home. It ...