Arts & Culture
-
Proof She Existed
By Wendy Staley Colbert Push open one of the paneled, double doors leading into my bedroom and you’ll see angled against the corner a 19th-century-style,...
-
Strikeout by Stacey Balkun
By Stacey Balkun Love note for Marianne Moore, 1887-1972, American modernist poet and baseball fan. Marianne—I’m running out of time. I’m reading you again, marking...
-
Love (self-, romantic, solidarity) SMASHES Patriarchy and Rape Culture
By Nicole Burres of SMASH Patriarchy and Rape Culture Nicole Burres, a member of SMASH Patriarchy and Rape Culture, asked a series of people about...
-
Prayer by Claire Askew
By Claire Askew for Steve I almost can’t help it. Sometimes it just comes fizzing up through me — the white noise of lightning rattling...
-
“To keep back the cold”
By Stephanie Gilmore -with mil gracias to Cherríe Moraga To keep back the cold I...
-
Looking Up
By Stacey Balkun . ..Love note for Sally Ride, 1951-2012, American physicist and astronaut ..who joined NASA at age 32 and became the first American woman...
-
She Called Me a Poet
By Candy Taaffe August 9, 2009 Finally official. . The love and mutual respect is what inspires the truth, ………….and the desire ………….to make happen...
-
Dedicated to the next century of Queer Asian artists and activists
By Celeste Chan and Margaret Rhee Dear future ones: . They will say we have done nothing. ……….That we have no one, …………………no history, no...
-
The Mother by Afuwa
Afuwa is a Guyanese-born artist, facilitator, and writer who uses myth and constructions of identity to question nearly everything. She lives/works on unceded Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, Squamish...
-
All the Ways to Sing in Portuguese
By Caits Meissner For Flonia I once loved the split fruit of a woman, scooping the seeds from the apple’s thick core, a dual moon I...
-
on mothers and daughters, sisters and lovers
By Sasanka Jinadasa see, #solidarity is a word more easily tagged than practiced and I don’t know how I feel about using a #hashtag in...
-
Can’t/ Don’t/Stop
Can’t/Don’t/Stop: Black Dance in America for Bert Williams, Aida “Queen of the Cakewalk” Overton Walker and George Walker you don’t see the stretch you...
-
l-o-v-e by t’ai freedom ford
By t’ai freedom ford even with its selfish, gaping mouth always hungering for anything that throbs. even with its greedy hands that rob the day...
-
Aperture by Stacey Balkun
By Stacey Balkun Love note for Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1900-1979, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, discovered the composition of stars. The Harvard moths were...
-
for she so loved the world
By: Angelina Blasich beautiful so burdened and blessed so alive and alone so loved so loved so loved for she so loved the world that she...
-
River by Afuwa
_________________________________________________________ Afuwa is a Guyanese-born artist, facilitator, and writer who uses myth and constructions of identity to question nearly everything. She lives/works on unceded Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, Squamish...
-
Assata’s living monument of love, a found poem for Trayvon and all kids who die* by Vanessa Huang
by Vanessa Huang we are all temporary. i’ll bow to beyond, and the miracles supporting us. maybe your bodies’ll be lluvia, a conscious accumulation de...
-
Casa Azul: A Love Poem for Tala by Kim Tran
by Kim Tran I imagine Frida Kahlo. I imagine her sitting with her broken, fractured spine in a cobalt house surrounded by banana leaves and...
