"An Interpretation of Why Caged Birds Sing", "Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever"... by Matthew Johnson
I know what the caged bird feels, alas! - Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Sympathy” An Interpretation of Why Caged Birds Sing - After Paul...
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- 3 days ago
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"Dreadlock Man" & "Mimir" by Jordan Joe
Dreadlock Man Dreadlock man fi die alone As the slender figures with eyeless faces Pass without rhythm in their strides rightleftright...
- 3 days ago
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"BOHEMIAN" by Frank Njugi
There is something to be said about a black man who might make himself a bioethicist & clone his shame to be something preserved in...
- 3 days ago
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“Dollar store Conor Oberst with a Bandcamp account”….by Patricia Kusumaningtyas
Dollar store Conor Oberst with a Bandcamp account The Satanic Bible on your mantle and the Tao Te Ching on your nightstand – you dread,...
- 3 days ago
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"Spiritual Awakening", "Freedom", "Acceptance", & "Vulnerable" by Nyah Bernucho
Spiritual Awakening cousin rolled up in grandpa’s backyard waiting for the one to come home grandpa said “you can’t control a man, but...
- 3 days ago
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"Stone Dove", "Condensation as Bullet", & "Ode To Her PJs" by Joshua Merchant
Stone Dove the first time I read about the bird and the cage it sung herself out of I waited to hear something award winning – the...
- 3 days ago
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"Of Delinquent, Errant Joys" by Ronita Chattopadhyay
Delinquent. I like the way the word starts because it reminds me of delicious (ness). And then, suddenly, without warning it lapses into...
- 3 days ago
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"Bucket list(s)", "Can you hear me?" & "Moulding" by Shiksha Dheda
Bucket list(s) i. Things to do/achieve list 2019 Go horse-riding Learn how to play the guitar Learn a new language Buy a (very) nice...
- 3 days ago
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"In Blood, Sweat and a Glimpse of Hope" by I Echo
In Blood, Sweat and a Glimpse of Hope “we will walk through darkness till daybreak” — The President who never Was Angels, gather. Sing...
- 3 days ago
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"The Place I Call Home" & "Is The Blood Drained Enough This Time?" by Megha Sood
The Place I Call Home An Ode to jersey City, New Jersey ,my home for more than 15 years I'm from the most diverse city in the nation, a...
- 3 days ago
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"La Pacana" by Lori Ibarra
Taproots thrust and dive, trusting in their feeders' thirst no, tata never touched me like that (tiny girl, you still left me with him)...
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"How to Paint A Wound" by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi
Boys like me make art of our misery, our fingers fiddling on the canvas of worries. We box into silence, our body swallowing every pinch...
- 3 days ago
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"we them people" by Kevin Powell
dream on dreamer the way Alvin Ailey and Maya Angelou and George Floyd and Breonna Taylor dreamed of southern-baked pilgrims dancing and...
- May 13
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"For Ukraine" by Kevin Powell
You can taste the starved love Rubbing the sleepy genocide eyes Of tiny children With history pinned inside Their orphaned clothes They...
- May 13
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"Came Calling" by J.S. Doherty
One night while we slept Dreaming of forests And inhabited attics And circuses Impossible spaces Tilting platforms Sad, beautiful...
- May 13
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"Leaving a daughter in another country after the end of a long estrangement" by Grant Shimmin
As I heft the suitcase onto the station’s tarmac The rivers of her tears are pooling in the corners of my eyes Grant Shimmin is a South...
- May 13
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"Three Poems About Water" by KJ Shepherd
not quite It’s not snowing, but it’s not not snowing either. Up by the Georgia border, we’d call anything wet and white “snow,” but out...
- May 13
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"Orbiting Bodies" by Ramona Gore
Maybe we’re satellites Sending signals to each other But never touching Ramona Gore is currently a Cinema and History major at Binghamton...
- May 13
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"Before Carnival" by Pamela Richardson
~Venice, February 2002 Empty-eyed, paper-mache bird heads stare through windows, hang with beaks turned down toward the street. Red,...
- May 13
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"Fast Fashion Assumptions about Plus-Size Women" by Justine Defever
Neon t-shirt of Tweety Bird scowling Does it look like I care? because you don’t spare anyone’s feelings. Sheer leopard print blouses...
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