Poetry
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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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Book Review: “A Penny Saved” by Arisa White
A Penny Saved, by Arisa White (Willow Books) Reviewed by Sarah Mantilla Griffin Between September 2001 and June 2012, far more American women...
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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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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...
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Because Someday Someone Should Ask, “Do You Remember Where You Were When Amiri Baraka Died?”
By khoLi All those major events we lived through. If we responded to them as conscious Black intellectuals, we had to try to become soldiers ourselves. That...
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Two Poems by Gala Mukomolova
By Gala Mukmolova Girl-talk * I’ve really been working on my orgasmic meditation, my ex tells me. If the instructor touches my clit in...
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Poem Suite: Things
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, four poets consider...
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it’s like this: an interview with Doris Davenport
Doris Davenport’s crucial journey as an artist and thinker has spanned many years and has touched the nation (you may for example remember her piece...
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3 poems by Meg Wade
The Skinning House There’s howling in the woods out back. ………………………..The creepy light at the bottom of the pool. ………………………..All my fucking...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Three Poems by Meredith Trede
By Meredith Trede Surviving Birds As you pack, you tell me the swans attacked during your dawn river swim. Their fierce wings...
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Op-Ed: How to be Black in the Age of Obama, George Zimmerman, and Paula Deen: Notes from Summer, 2013
Welcome to the impossible future. White people are talking about race. Sometimes, they’ll even talk about racism. Some will say the word “racism” hesitantly,...
