By Martina “Mick” Powell for June Jordan this is how i learn it: her black and in cropped cut and singsong her in a summer water, the florida of it...
In our current times of collective struggle’s reinvigoration, the life and works of June Jordan provide vital lessons. Writing between the 1960s and the early...
By Jazlyn Andrews “That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and...
* Making money takes time So is making sentences I pass by my thoughts of you They are satisfying Then eliminate the list of places...
A Tree or Another or a Lover After Martin Buber and his English translator Ronald Gregor Smith I can look on a tree...
Dear Communities: We are grateful for your engagement with this Forum over these past two and half weeks—reading, comments, and sharing with others. Your interest...
Loving You, Praxes for 1. CORPOREALITY Your thick black hair is so abject, so tangled, in bobby pins & hair ties. You...
By Shither *”Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* The spatial...
By Grace Kuell * “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* I’ve written poems about Silence before...
tenderness after Stephen Dunn Back then, when everything seemed so sure I was twenty-five, and she was thirty-five, she found me in the...
By Alex-Quan Pham * “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* My childhood was spent speaking tiếng...
By Mick Powell and Heather M. Turcotte, Associate Editors “The collective voice of the voiceless is still one of the most powerful tools of...
By Hannah Seelman Rainbows everywhere. Yet, all that I know is our love. For so long it has been denied. Angry shadows of...
As I was watching Camille A. Brown and her dancers in Brown’s latest work, Black Girl: Linguistic Play during a run through on Sunday...
By Fernanda Cunha At my parents’ new house there’s a cat who is always by the big-limbed tree in the front yard. It’s more bones...
By Sa Fa “Middle Passage” this is the middle. a place i prefer to call the middle rather than the end. even though,...
By Vicki Vargas Bottomless Mimosa A stranger’s dog threshes against its chain until the weeping of metal-links distracts our waiter. I watch your...
By Anonymous ...