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- By Rita Dovelate, in aqua and ermine, gardeniasscaling her left sleeve in a spasm of scent,her gloves white, her...
- By Tilsa OttaUn club nocturno no hace un veranoMas creo en el perreoEterno recreoEn la agitación de la masa críticaInclin...
- By Tilsa OttaA nightclub doesn’t make a summerI believe more in perreoPlay everlastingIn the agitation of a critical...
- By Maya KhoslaWater minus air becomes wound.Her blowhole, bursts of breathing,trapped in an endless curtain of nettingand...
- By William Butler YeatsThe light of evening, Lissadell, Great windows open to the south, Two girls in silk kimonos, both Beautiful...
- By William Butler YeatsHow can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics,...
- By Remica Bingham-Rishera man is killed in Mobile, Alabama. It is 1981, nearest what some will call the last lynching in America...
- By Thomas Henry SmithE Ihowā Atua,O ngā iwi mātou rā,Āta whakarangona;Me aroha noa.Kia hua ko te pai;Kia tau tō atawhai;Manaakitia...
- By Thomas BrackenGod of Nations at Thy feet,In the bonds of love we meet,Hear our voices, we entreat,God defend our free...
- By Sylvia ChanI want to begin this poem with two stories:1. In 1984, my mother was pulled over for speeding in a rural...
- By Letta Neelythis concrete here is where my brother’s last breath left his body began to circulate elsewhere; some...
- By Cheryl ClarkeMother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Nine Senior pastor state senator Name meaning “merciful...
- By CAConrad
the sign read
HARMACY after
Frank shot
the P out - By Frank X. Walker...walk into a bar in America. Butterworth says, I’m being repackaged. Ben says, I’m being rebranded...
- By Cyrus ConsoleRotor wash, or the downward-flowing Air by which our helicopters formed Imprints in the jungle grass beneath ...
- By Ariana BrownI don’t know why most mexicans in my hood wore nike cortez’s– why the breakers in my crew polished ‘...
- By S.J. Fowler & Rebecca KamenSIR, the 28 spheres of Kamen’s harmony Susceptible, inferred, immense, actual - the electron microscopy...
- By Xi ChuanIf I could, I would put on a facemask and walk into the desert to meet with fairies and angels. I put...
- By James CagneyI come from the kidnapped, the assaulted— my country’tis of reparations as in-store credit backordered...