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Catherine-Esther Cowie on Saint Lucia, breathing life into history, and the violence in our heart.
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- PoemBy Edward SalemGod said (and already you can tell
I’m making this up),
If you lift a rock, I am there.
If you lift a finger… - ArticleBy Julia Kornberg
The Eternal Dice shows César Vallejo breaking with the Latin American modernist tradition in poems that mix satire, socialist ideals, and formal experimentation.
- PoemBy Cameron BarnettThis is how the story begins: a touch, a bump, a hot mouth,
jostled skin in an elevator, escalation, … - PoemBy Meredith Strickerin the DMZ ravines north of the Kaesong wastes edging
south of the perfect ruler’s pink and prisoned paradisethere is a climate paying no attention to us where cranes
repopulate serpentine deltas - PoemBy Meredith StrickerEvery morning opening the newspaper, I am faced
with the thin line that divides disaster and deprivation
from a world of luminous wealth. Tuesday, January 29th,
for instance, bodies, many of them children, lie on the ground
They drowned in the canal trying to escape a weapons depot fire
and explosion in Lagos. Their heads are twisted in straw and dust
near the feet of on-lookers whose cries we cannot hear 
- ArticleBy André Naffis-Sahely
New collections by Frank X. Walker and E. Hughes use documentary techniques to dramatize a tumultuous era in Black American history.
- PoemBy Jack Collom"When one is seen gliding through the woods and close to the observer, it passes like a thought, and…
- PoemBy Carolyn ForchéThese are your stones, assembled in matchbox and tin,
collected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct,
battlefield… - AudioPoetry Off the ShelfMike Sonksen on the Los Angeles fires and what it means to love a city in danger.
- PoemBy Xiao Yue Shan1
listen carefully—there is land or there is water,
and a time where
you may mistake one for another.
there… - PoemBy avery r. younga•ver•y (ā ver'ē), n. dark(iss) ¹blk-male chile foundate(id) in luv unlimit(id) fuc(k) anthem(s). ²jee…
- PoemBy Imtiaz DharkerAt last I’m taking off this coat,
this black coat of a country
that I swore for years was mine,
that I wore more out of habit
than design.
Born... - PoemBy heidi andrea restrepo rhodesI: My beloved is called an inconceivable beast, a spectacle diagnosed with teratoid genitalia, a chaos…
- PoemBy Darrel Alejandro HolnesThis love dares not speak its name
in some states
until your eyes say it
on a beach in Ft. Lauderdale… - AudioPoetry Off the ShelfVioleta Orozco on the US presidential election, leaving Mexico, and her connection to deep time.
- ArticleBy Jared Marcel Pollen
On Context Collapse, Ryan Ruby’s vertiginous secret history of poetry.
- ArticleBy Alexander Wells
The German poet Lutz Seiler has spent his career making song from the ruins of history.
