Poetry
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The Star Barbershop
By: Joseph Ross Outside the Star Barbershop its red, white, and blue twisting barber pole announced a fraternity inside. Holding my father’s proud hand I...
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“Touch: A Letter to the Mother”
By: L. Lamar Wilson I’ve driven 654 miles without sleep to make you better, but when I ask how you feel & you thrust your...
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Refusing to turn blessings into curses
In recognition of International Women’s Day Lord, I hear of showers of blessings Thou art scattering full and free Showers thirsty souls refreshing Let...
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Two Poems
by Brook Blander Stupid (from now that I’m here; lyrics from the mud to the sun) …is what they call her. Without regard to...
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Two Poems
By Caits Meissner the two girls loved like a sieve and drank a river of fish and read poems too big for their mouths...
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Vena Amoris
I’m on a relatively small plane on my way to Denver. I’m in the window seat. There’s no middle, just the guy in the aisle...
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Poetry Spotlight: Tiphanie Yanique
Anniversary I am knotted at the house screaming. The moving church careening away with my husband. Christ, they’ve committed him. But the witnesses...
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Two Poems
By Saumya Dave Daughter Dreams Before arid fate grips these ankles and loneliness seduces my lungs I’ll offer who I never was ...
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Three Poems
by Alessandra Lynch mademoiselles d’avignon The one we look at as the one cursed hangs her orange beast-face, a block for a...
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Ovary
I left my ovary on the subway last night. Stepped out. Felt light. Heard the doors close behind me, and realized I’d left my ovary...
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The Place of Our Spines: An Inter/Review of nomad of salt and hard water by Cynthia Dewi Oka
“Poems come to stand in the place of our spines.” -Cynthia Dewi Oka “notes on Captain Ahab’s workshop/ before the poet is harpooned” We are...
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Cheryl Clarke: Selected Poems
one million black women and no mention of HIV/AIDS? Black Men (always in progress) living as a lesbian on 49’s final eve ...
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Book Review: 101 Things That Are Not True About The Most Famous Black Women Alive
101 Things That Are Not True About The Most Famous Black Women Alive (ebook) by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Reviewed by Sarah Mantilla Griffin The form...
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Poem Suite: Bodies
Have Your Own Timeless Edition Every Black Woman for Free By Naomi Extra Arrives unassembled See instructions enclosed: ...
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TFW Poet Spotlight: Darrel Alejandro Holnes
By Darrel Alejandro Holnes Post-Racial You have been a vegan for years and are tired of fearful fishes trembling when you fly above, tired of...
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Breaking News: President Obama has been re-elected!
And we continue the work of justice… The Feminist Wire Collective
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Fluency
By Royce K. Freeman I used to be fluent. Still dream sometimes in my Native tongue. My mother tells me I would talk...
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Coming-of-Age in Sal Si Puedes
By Rosebud Ben-Oni —Baghdad Beach, Matamoros, Mexico Even the gulls scuttled from the surf: a grey arm erect and bit of shoulder wrapped in electrical...