Poetry
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Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Reads at Nuyorican Poets Cafe for Fresh Fruit Festival NYC
Even as LGBT characters and “out” celebrities become more common in pop culture and mainstream media, the richness and complexity of real queer lives is...
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We are Assata
Quincy Scott Jones We are braces and birthdays weekend barbeques commuter traffic and job interviews beauty salon barber shops the doorbell on a...
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Assata Shakur: She Who Struggles
By Luam Kidane Assata Shakur. she who struggles. Assata Shakur. she who struggles for rupture from colonized thought patterns. thought patterns choreographed to the legacies...
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“r/evolutionary love sounds: a mixtape for Assata”
By Amina Doherty rev·o·lu·tion noun ˌre-və-ˈlü-shən 1. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system; 2. the movement...
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Celebrating Assata Shakur and the Black Radical Tradition
Assata Shakur’s political thought and activism has captured the imagination of artists, activists, women and men around the world. As African activists, we have learned from...
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Featured Poet: LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs
By LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs bacche kā pōtRā bloom, the dandelion dance of Keisha’s mane. a Wave of bush. her kitchen pearls &...
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Two Poems: "Different Pages" and "The Bee Trap"
By Kristy Webster The Bee Trap Some girls have eyes like invitations, and some girls wear glasses and scarves, walk with a whistle...
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Queens Among Princesses
By Kaila Philo We spend the majority of our days primping and preening dead protein adorning our crusty scalps as if, somehow, this dead...
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Featured Poet: Aditi Rao
By Aditi Rao Dear Mr. Yadav, I too am an Indian Woman “Referring to the recent ‘Slut Walk’ held in the Capital, Mr. Lalu...
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Book Review: Marci Blackman's "Tradition"
By Quincy Scott Jones Town and Country: A Review of Marci Blackman’s Tradition (Water Street Press, 2013) In the most brilliant crimes stories, the detective must travel,...
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A is for Asylum
Assata do not dry like dissipated plums under castro’s bronzing sun you mural fortress you live memorial spirited artifice rouged sea salt that marinates america’s...
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Confession
By Nancy Kricorian Back when I earned my MFA in Poetry at Columbia, the majority of the students were women, and nearly all of our...
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The Living Museum
By Rachana Pathak PART 1 I am your living museum For you to idealize – The village life Happy peasants Smoking beedis in the fields...
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Two Poems by Vanessa Huang
voice of hunger Dear Adrienne, The moment of change . you honor. ripples me . in bittersweet wonder—. the...
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Love Note To My Sistars
By Joy KMT The hardest thing for a traumatized people to do is look in the mirror and love themselves, and their reflections. I say...
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The Many-Headed Hydra: A Sentimental Nature Poem
By Debbie Hu oh ghost of double-headed neglected sunflower... are you arching your spine towards this literally splendiferous sunrise, are you inclining your double ghost...
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Three Poems
By Ari Banias Some Kind of We These churchbells bong out one to another in easy conversation a pattern, a deep ringing that...
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If coherent light
Marina Abramović, in The Artist is Present, sat on a wooden chair in the spring of 2010 and made eye contact with anyone who cared...