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  • Article
    By André Naffis-Sahely

    New collections by Frank X. Walker and E. Hughes use documentary techniques to dramatize a tumultuous era in Black American history. 

    An illustration of three Black children framed by the legs of a running solider. Other soldiers are depicted at left and right. In the foreground is cotton speckled with blood.
  • Poem
    By Jack Collom
      "When one is seen gliding through the woods and close to the observer, it passes like a thought, and…
  • Poem
    By Carolyn Forché
    These are your stones, assembled in matchbox and tin,
    collected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct,
    battlefield…
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Mike Sonksen on the Los Angeles fires and what it means to love a city in danger.
  • Poem
    By M. NourbeSe Philip
    evidence     is
    sustenance
         is
    support
         is
    the law...
  • Poem
    By Xiao Yue Shan
    1
    listen carefully—there is land or there is water,
    and a time where
    you may mistake one for another.
    there…
  • Poem
    By avery r. young
    a•ver•y (ā ver'ē), n. dark(iss) ¹blk-male chile foundate(id) in luv unlimit(id) fuc(k) anthem(s). ²jee…
  • Poem
    By Imtiaz Dharker
    At last I’m taking off this coat,
          this black coat of a country
          that I swore for years was mine,
          that I wore more out of habit
          than design.
          Born...
  • Poem
    By Darrel Alejandro Holnes
    This love dares not speak its name
    in some states
    until your eyes say it
    on a beach in Ft. Lauderdale…
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Violeta Orozco on the US presidential election, leaving Mexico, and her connection to deep time.
  • Article
    By Jared Marcel Pollen

    On Context Collapse, Ryan Ruby’s vertiginous secret history of poetry.

    An illustration of a skull whose top half is removed. Inside the skull, a standing figure recites while other figures are seated in a circle.
  • Article
    By Alexander Wells

    The German poet Lutz Seiler has spent his career making song from the ruins of history.

    A black-and-white photograph of Lutz Seiler in a leather jacket.
  • Poem
    By Victoria Adukwei Bulley
    & even when we said we were alone there was [       ] noise on the radio & there was [       ] noise in the car & there was [       ] noise all over the...
  • Audio
    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Tyler Mills on the truth, how to love a cockroach, and her grandfather's silence about the bomb.
  • Poem
    By Solmaz Sharif
    Studies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's…
  • Poem
    By Tilsa Otta
    Un club nocturno no hace un verano
    Mas creo en el perreo
    Eterno recreo
    En la agitación de la masa crítica…
  • Poem
    By Tilsa Otta
    Translated By Farid Matuk
    A nightclub doesn’t make a summer
    I believe more in perreo
    Play everlasting
    In the agitation of a critical…
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