ode to partynextdoor
By Keno Evol
you there/when little brother did so much / coke at the house party / the house forgot / it was inflated with a room full of black boys / from the east side of … Continue reading→
Five Untitled Poems
by Simon Perchik
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You reach in as if this rock
is still beating :each gust
returned the way its shadow
cooled between touching down
and the darkness that would become
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What Matters
By Rushelle Frazier
If five people are shot outside a police station, does it make a sound?
Can you hear it over cries for justice
in the streets?
If a Black church is shot up … Continue reading→
Walt Whitman and the Weather Report
(After Robinson Jeffers)
By Laurinda Lind
Walt
in the twenty-first century
shakes the acorns from his beard
and lumbers forth to nourish
himself upon the air
Journalists ask … Continue reading→
Border Semantics
By Alan Chazaro
Human Tsunami is a phrase used by politicians to explain a wave of refugees
fleeing one
country’s coast for another. It’s a sudden crash of corpses in San Francisco; a crest
… Continue reading→