Two Poems by Mark Cugini
A white man says we need to set a higher bar for / terrorism and then rides off my timeline on a police horse. There's nothing new / I… More
Two Poems by Abdellatif Laâbi
she would pull her headscarf off / and strike the floor seven times / cursing the heavens and the Tyrant / I was in the cave / where convicts… More
from Weirde Sister
I have a ring that throws up when a cat dies / I have a ring where instead of a jewel it has one of God’s baby teeth /… More
The PEN Ten with Khaled Mattawa
"Being uninhibited is not the only imaginative state that artists should seek to be all the time." More
from The Somnambulist
I touch the swollen skin / left of my right eye I ask Is this grace // is it violence is it black inside like inside / a black… More
from Vincent
I don't know if it was I / or the wind that lifted her forelocks but / what a mess her face was what a / traveling elsewhere … More
Two Poems by Amber Atiya
u daughter of geechee gods / u femme no longer loving / the butch on top of her, u queer / my nickel plated heaven: / boys with breasts… More
A Prayer for Workers
Bless the woman, man, & child / who honor Earth by opening shine / in the soil—the splayed hour More
The Hammer of Justice
O Justice! Bring down your Hammer / Smash the system built on slavery / Let your thunder bring wonder / Let our country be the place it wants to… More
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