Arts & Culture
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Dark Energy (a poem)
By Samiya A. Bashir Reflecting upon Toni Cade Bambara’s timeless novel The Salt Eaters on the occasion of her 75th birthday anniversary. Wake from nightmares...
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Three Poems by Aya de Leon
By Aya de Leon eulogy for my ass friends loved ones we are gathered today to pay our respects to bid farewell...
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Two Pieces by Karin Cotterman
By Karin Cotterman Radiation/Journey to basement and waiting room I enter the sliding glass door of the building as if I am...
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Poem Suite: Retold
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, three poets consider...
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Mockeries of Separation (a poem)
. by e nina jay “we must not hide behind the mockeries of separations that have been imposed upon us and which we so...
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Audre Lorde Comes to Spelman College Archive 2009
By Opal Moore “I must always be/ building nests in a windy place” . Audre Lorde, “Portrait” . “Conduct your blooming in the noise...
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2 Poems Inspired by Audre Lorde by Melinda Goodman
By Melinda Goodman IAM …ARE YOU?…READY In her poem entitled, “Power”, Audre Lorde proclaims, “The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready...
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A Woman Speaks by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
A Woman Speaks By Cheryl Boyce-Taylor I pick a bunch of hibiscus blooms. What lessons shall I learn from the spell of their senses? ...
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Blackbody Radiation and Blackbody Curve (Two Poems)
By Samiya Bashir Blackbody Radiation isotropic catalyst intake breath o barometric interference squall omen o friction: still sky winder o ...
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lovesong from the daughters of your pen
By Evie Shockley lovesong from the daughters of your pen . big and complex...
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The difference between poetry…
A Collective Love Poem by The Audre Lorde Project The . difference between poetry and...
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Poem for Audre Lorde
By asha bandele Author’s note: Audre Lorde was my teacher and my mentor. This poem, written two years after her transition into the Spirit world,...
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Excerpts from “Let Her: Words, Matter” by Ames Hawkins
I. Julie punched the buttons on the radio, hard double-clicks, propelling the station marker back and forth between the rock and roll of WLLZ and...
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Three Poems by Joy KMT
By Joy KMT Renisha McBride Even now you are being explained away your body laid on the coffee table and autopsied...
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Four Poems by Cindy Lynn Brown
By Cindy Lynn Brown Harmless Just a remark casually through the room under neon lights nothing to hang on to for several minutes...
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Trayvon Triptych (a poem)
By Quincy Scott Jones I. George Zimmerman Presses the Mute Button They say I was angry The same country that promotes drunks and pot...
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Excerpts from Sir by HR Hegnauer
Dear Sir, I am afraid to say, I love you — a collection of simple sounds. I know this is the softest room in...
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How to Build a Prison (a poem)
By Quincy Scott Jones for Philadelphia, USA 1. Always hated that building and never knew why The one right before the on-ramp for...
