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Guillén’s awareness of the devastating consequences and conundrums of (neo)colonialism extends outward from his native Caribbean. The form of this zoo is not left to be read as an innocuous or arbitrary...
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By Sandra Jackson-OpokuGwendolyn Brooks’s second volume of poetry is a coming-of-age narrative that charts the rites of passage in a young Black woman’s life: childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
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By Srikanth ReddyIs the news like squirrels? Am I the only person out there who feels like the news resembles squirrels?
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By Layla Benitez-JamesMy Cuban grandfather often chalked my interests up to being Cuban. A love of rhyme, Cuban. A love of poetry, Cuban.
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By Nora Brooks BlakelyGwendolyn Brooks was a World-Watcher. And we need world-watchers more than ever.
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By Steven G FullwoodThe Fire & Ink writers festivals felt like a Black, queer wonderland for people who loved writing, editing, critiquing, promoting, or publishing books. Like many of those who attended these festivals...Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Adrian MatejkaEach summer in Chicago, when this city’s particular combination of heat and humidity comes for everyone (as it is doing right now), I am reminded of the air-conditioned reprieve of the movie theater...Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Kim MooreIn 2000, I began a music degree at Leeds College of Music, studying trumpet performance. I lived in a shared house with five other students—a classical singer, a flautist, and three guitarists. I...Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Samiya BashirMy responsibility as a poet, an artist, is to not look away. —Nikky Finney, Fire & Ink keynote, 2009We live in a time of tempest, physically and culturally careening toward the precipice of—something. We find it hard...Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Brian SneedenMy introduction to this poetry was a goatskin: a five-foot parchment, on one side of which are handwritten fragments of oral poems, interviews, folk song lyrics, and archives...
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By Eirill Alvilde Falck“North is not final,” “In another time,” and “the knife soars soundless” are translations from Hjerteskog/Syđänmettä (Heart of the Forest/Syđänmettä), M. Seppola Simonsen’s award-winning debut poetry collection. The...Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Adrian MatejkaPoets might not always have the panache of the greatest rock guitarist ever, but we do have the same curiosity and desire.
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By K.B. ThorsMost of Herostories’ protagonists worked in rural Iceland, and tales of their difficult travels describe how they would embark in the middle of the night, trekking through weather and treacherous...Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Jeanine WalkerBecause a smirk is so rare here, because the somber, serious, sincere, self-reflective tone echoes throughout most of the poems in this book, we chose to highlight the presence, the rarity, and the...Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Kwame Dawes & Saddiq DzukogiLanguage does have its limits, but this is a peculiar thing to say if language is all we have. One of the things that representational art gives to humans is an alternative to the retrieval of memory...Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Joe Carrick-VartyA moment ago we were talking about mortality and now we’re talking about Arsenal Football Club. Oops, we’re listing our favorite rom-coms. OK! He has a ranking system for rom-coms. OK! It’s my round...Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Meghan O’RourkeFor years, I associated ambivalence with indecision or spinelessness, a kind of character weakness.
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By Carl PhillipsLoneliness, for me, has equally little to do with the company of others and with the lack of it. I carry loneliness inside me, I always have...
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By Lisa JarnotI’d like to think of this essay as an opportunity to peer into some rooms that are for me essential to my life as a poet. I’ll call these rooms sacred places, and I will create a definition for the...