By Jean Macpherson
I never met Philip Levine except through his published words. If I had to write about the one thing that most attracted me to his work it is his fearless ability to express working-class traits with abandon … Continue reading→
Maya Angelou
By Juliana Chang
once I witnessed
the universe splitting open
to hold a poem,
her poem
now the atomic flower closes;
somewhere
perched in the ridges
of an open palm.
Juliana … Continue reading→
In the Gray Area
By Sean Battle
“Dark and light, bad and good, are not different but one and the same”-Heraclitus
So what if Christopher Dorner turned sirens on cop culture:
Badge wearing killers of spirits whose bodies … Continue reading→
In Memoriam: Seamus Heaney, August 30, 2013
By “Bard” Eucewelis
He disappeared in summer’s teeming life:
the streams were shallow and the airports full;
the mercury rose in the giving day;
while pigeons shat upon … Continue reading→
The Light of the Moon
— poem for Audre Lorde
By Gabriella M. Belfiglio
Imagining your lips—
my mouth forms words
that come like the leaves of autumn
dry falling and full of … Continue reading→