All posts tagged "Poetry"
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Lessons from the Damned, 2018; or Why We Cannot wait for Tenure to Insist upon our Dignity, Respect, Power, and Value
By. Dr. G & Dr. Kimberly S. Love “The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference...
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Trans Multitudes and Death Reality: A Coda
Tw; Death Reality. I’ve come to accept that I will die. I know this. And frightening it is But I refuse to live in...
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Multitudes
By Sasha Alexander “ISLAN (WON’T YOU CELBRATE) ft. Lucille Clifton” – track created by Sasha Alexander. In August 2014 I was teaching and...
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A Love Note To CeCe McDonald
By Joshua Allen We got to know each other over late night walks in Brooklyn and early morning breakfasts comprised exclusively of cocktails. Even...
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Entanglement
By Che Gossett Entanglement: “the articulation of a theory is gathering place, sometimes a point of rest as the process rushes on, insisting that...
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– Luanda calling, Berlin burning – (Stop)
By WoMANtís RANDom Paris warning, London BrrreX -that’s it. I’ll go ahead after I got head. Abra accompanies this written piece with „Crybaby“. I have...
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Black, Trans, & Still Breathing
By KOKUMO it all started in a slave-ship the belly of a beast whose appetite your ancestors could neva’ satisfy but that didn’t...
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Take Me to the Water
By Amari Xolá Rasin Think about the consciousness and memory of water and how it mirrors our body and attachment to memory The waters...
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some call it a comeback
By SA Smythe some call it a comeback i just got back & already feel the need to time travel again. not the way that...
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A Black Trans Daughterhood of Story-Telling-Literacy
By Dora Santana When I was my own little girl in northern Brazil, a black mermaid lived in a water-well in our backyard. When my...
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Skins Hiding
By Charles Huey Greene My body bleeds brown/ The color of dried blood/ Brown bodies just like mine lie/ In the streets naked/ In...
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America Taught Me How To Forget
By Jay-Marie Hill America Taught Me How To Forget america taught me how to forget my name my pain my stories my glories it’s...
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Honoring Chef Yulanda
By Evolve Benton Chef Yulanda chef cooked the meals fed us bois confidence fed us bois freedom This is what black boi life...
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A Poem by Jenny Rossi
My face a Band-Aid, ode to insecurity I think the new intern is smarter than me the way a lake is wider than a...
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2 poems by Lisa Dordal
Transaction After the prayers were spoken, the hymns sung and your casket closed, we followed you—Father and I— through the courtyard blooms of...
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Four Poems from the Brothers Grimm by Sarah Kortemeier
Beginnings In older times, when wishes still helped, youth was the witch. A small man lived like a king and also...
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Date Grape by Freesia McKee
Date Grape “Brewer responds to protests about offensive beer name” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 7th, 2016 What if I took the worst thing...
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Poetry by Andrea Rexilius
Poem for Jack Kerouac I am the first enemy of Jack Kerouac. He is mentioned again at a reading and I think to...
