We couldn’t be more grateful for our Fall 2020 Cohort of exceptional poets and writers from around the globe. Throughout…
(for Monica, #Verzuz, and Black pandemonium) You sure you ain’tAmerica’s Ho too You sure youain’t wreckage A gutted house ontwice…
Hold me Black girl with the dark eyesand bright colored braids. Hold mein that close embrace of kindred spirits.Sister of…
Mother knits in the sun, hummingsongs of birds. Having snapped her flowers from the branches of the past,she sings about…
When I was a kid I didn’t have cable, so Nickelodeon was a Holy Grail onlyattainable at my aunt’s house…
I enter the trap house of addictionUnaware of what lies aheadA repetitive destruction, my new affliction Thedomino effect yielding a…
because we want to live & love & make flowery memoriesall broken by stray bullets. by guns aimed at uswe…
in this part of the world,our leaders celebrate 60 years of free-doomby ploughing peaceful protesters from their mother’s soilthey say…
i worship the day because it survived the night – romeo oriogun this night is having a rhythm of its…
in response to the #EndSARS protests on the calendar in the living room, thick slashes of black scratch the days following…