Arts & Culture
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3 poems by Tamiko Beyer
Water stilled is not a dying sound One bee clambers into a rose, then another—together they bump and buzz the bloom heavy with pollen...
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Poetry by runner up Camonghne Felix
Google Search ………………………………………………………..Year: ‘02 ………………………………………………………………..radio; disney …………….Judy; Blume . …………………………………………..Hey; god; it’s; me; . ……………………………………………..cognitive; behavioral; therapy …………..moby; dick ……………………………………..p;t;s;d …………………jesse; mccartney how; to;...
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Excerpt from Dear Twin by Addie Tsai
Prologue Poppy wanted her back. She knew it was a fool’s mission. But, still. She had to try. Poppy’s wall...
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Poetry by contest winner t’ai freedom ford
some said you were the spitting image of evil after Carrie Mae Weems you became drum became washboard became hum became tincan became numb...
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Winners and finalists announced for TFW’s 1st Poetry Contest
THANK YOU, dear TFW readers and writers, for sending us your work for the 1st Annual TFW Poetry Contest. Given the over 100 strong submissions, this...
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3 Poems by Emily Carr
yolk (v.) he’s gonna havta reach inside you. he’s gonna do it. you asked him to. he’s gonna tell you how old it is. he’s...
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Remembering and Honoring Toni Cade Bambara
Sonia Sanchez: What are we pretending not to know today? The premise as you said, my sister, being that colored people on planet earth really...
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Hunger
They say you had the eye; they say you saw into people. They say you came before as shaman or bruja and returned as priestess; they say...
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Stroller (A Screenplay)
Roxana Walker-Canton: Natalie sits in her own seat in front of her mother and looks out the window. Mostly WHITE PEOPLE get on and off...
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I’ve Got Something To Say About This: A Survival Incantation
Kate Rushin: I see the whole thing played out. I'm bludgeoned, bloody, raped. My story is reduced to filler buried in the back of the...
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what is left
M. Nzadi Keita: what you remember/ starts with a smile/ a raw edge/ a single snip/ from the someone dead
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Praise to the Writer
Alice Lovelace: Toni Cade made an art of living/ Toni stood and we were lifted Toni spoke and our lives were saved/ Toni listened and we...
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A State of Rage (for Toni Cade Bambara)
I am tired of the silences that have been imposed on us. Shhhhh. Black women and girls. I am tired of the silences that we, Black...
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a spell to save your life
Alexis Pauline Gumbs: eat salt not that ocean drowning snack to stop thinking about dying unintentional salt
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Are we ready to be well?
Cara Page: She asks us to be well/ to love ourselves and one another/ So that we are all safe and loved.
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Photographs of Toni Cade Bambara & Friends
Photo griot Susan J. Ross shares photographs of Toni Cade Bambara and her friends during this forum celebration.
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Re-Membering Audre Lorde and Celebrating Toni Cade Bambara
Aishah Shahidah Simmons: Was it coincidence or karmic symmetry that the first day of our celebration in honor of Bambara falls on the twenty-second anniversary...
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Dark Energy (a poem)
Samiya A. Bashir: Wake from nightmares midchant. Squish sandblown eyes still as death with a hum bird’s beating heart.
