By Cornelius Eady
I’m here to tell you an old story. ThisAppears to be my work. I live in the world,Walk the streets of...
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- By Cornelius EadySome folks will tell you the blues is a woman,Some type of supernatural creature.My mother would tell...
- By Li-Young LeeSad is the man who is asked for a story and can’t come up with one. His five-year-old son waits in his...
- By Kinsale DrakeBecause my mama lost her daddy when she was too young And she didn’t know how to hold her grief so she...
- By Rosamond S. KingGranny, woman I’ve slept with the most her curves ungirdled, everything—hair , flesh, breath of hers...
- By Pamela SneedDespite horrible treatment The lack of acceptance care The threats Giving away all I stand to inherit...
- By Jessica AbughattasThe winter I leave him, I ask my parents to consider me their oldest son. To bend the rules. I could...
- By CAConradFrank’s sister grew long blue feathers she said it was worse than cutting teeth she spent a month screaming...
- By CAConradMother was angry when Frank accused his brother of being a cartoon “but look!” Frank said “I can fold...
- By Frank X. Walker...walk into a bar in America. Butterworth says, I’m being repackaged. Ben says, I’m being rebranded...
- By K. IverYou’ve never seen a lilac in Mississippi. Backstage you wear lotion laced with its chemical imitation...
- By Isabela AgosaMy mom and I don’t spend all day talking about the white priests who raped Great Grandma Marie, unless...
- By Kwame DawesTo be introduced as a mountain of gray-blue beauty at the end of that first chapter of chatty consideration...
- By Dunya MikhailToday four little robins left the nest and flew away. I turn time to a month ago and see their nest ...
- By Karyna McGlynn& watch Kevin Bacon conjure fake tears in a Real Hallway & I am Real Tears in a fake hallway & “Procreation...
- By John MurilloFor me, the movie starts with a black man Leaping into an orbit of badges, tiny moons Catching the sheen...
- By Bo Hee MoonMy singing voice isn’t very good, my substitute father said before my Torah portion— he was getting ...
- By Melanie TafejianYour children are always grinning, doing backflips, scaling trees in the black-and-white photos. I wonder...
- By Georg TraklFull of harmonies is the flight of birds. The green woods Have closed about the stiller huts at evening...
- By Patricia SmithDear ferocious dreamer. Dear maven of song and surveyor of every flung star. Dear meandering romantic...