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May 28, 20231 min read

"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...

"Bucket list(s)", "Can you hear me?" & "Moulding" by Shiksha Dheda

May 28, 20232 min read

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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...

"In Blood, Sweat and a Glimpse of Hope" by I Echo

May 28, 20232 min read

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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...

"The Place I Call Home" & "Is The Blood Drained Enough This Time?" by Megha Sood

May 28, 20233 min read

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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...

May 28, 20231 min read

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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)...

"How to Paint A Wound" by Adesiyan Oluwapelumi

May 28, 20231 min read

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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...

May 28, 20232 min read

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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, 20231 min read

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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, 20231 min read

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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...

"Leaving a daughter in another country after the end of a long estrangement" by Grant Shimmin

May 13, 20231 min read

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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...

"Three Poems About Water" by KJ Shepherd

May 13, 20232 min read

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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, 20231 min read

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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, 20231 min read

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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,...

"Fast Fashion Assumptions about Plus-Size Women" by Justine Defever

May 13, 20231 min read

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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...

May 13, 20231 min read

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"Present" by Kelli Simpson

There is too much. There is not enough. If there is an in-between, I don't possess the scale to calibrate that balance. I am what I own,...

May 13, 20233 min read

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"Dear Dead Brother #5" by Noah Cicero

Dear Dead Brother #5 (Passed on June 16, 2004) Last night, my partner and her dog slept on me The closer I get to real love Livelier...

"cry fowl" & "prodigal ghosts" by J. R. Wilkerson

May 13, 20231 min read

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"cry fowl" & "prodigal ghosts" by J. R. Wilkerson

cry fowl yard fowl flee the sight to cower lest they perish from the hawks in flight tumbling down as they cherish prodigal ghosts it was...

"The Dream Is Over pt. I", "A Life" & "Songs For The New War" by Scott Laudati

May 13, 20232 min read

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"The Dream Is Over pt. I", "A Life" & "Songs For The New War" by Scott Laudati

The Dream Is Over pt. I It was all good once. Football games on Friday nights and maybe second base under the bleachers before the last...

"We received a King Cake at the office..." & "The Soundtrack…" by Nolcha Fox & Ken Tomaro

Apr 30, 20232 min read

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"We received a King Cake at the office..." & "The Soundtrack…" by Nolcha Fox & Ken Tomaro

We received a King Cake at the office the other day Part coffee cake, part cinnamon roll Bathed in an icing of yellow, green and purple A...

"The Mall of Men" & "Extra Marital" by Sanket Mhatre

Apr 30, 20232 min read

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"The Mall of Men" & "Extra Marital" by Sanket Mhatre

THE MALL OF MEN She chooses men the same way you’d pick a detergent bar or a cereal box at a hyperstore Carefully; after looking at the...