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Anxiety & Insecurity

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  • Poem
    By Remica Bingham-Risher
    a man is killed in Mobile, Alabama. It is 1981, nearest what some will call the last lynching in America...
  • Poem
    By Toi Derricotte
    When relatives came from out of town,we would drive down to Blackbottom,drive slowly down the congested...
  • Poem
    By K. Iver
    You’ve never seen a lilac in Mississippi. Backstage you wear lotion laced with its chemical imitation...
  • Poem
    He was jailed for cruelty to insects, and his agent wasn’t answering the phone, so he stayed awake in...
  • Poem
    By John Murillo
    For me, the movie starts with a black man Leaping into an orbit of badges, tiny moons Catching the sheen...
  • Article
    By Carl Phillips

    Loneliness, then, means understanding—and accepting, though some days this is only slightly easier than others—that no one knows me. 

    Hard feelings 8 dark blue
  • Poem
    By Georg Trakl
    At evening autumn forests drone With deadly weapons, the golden plains And the blue lakes, above which...
  • Poem
    By Georg Trakl
    Full of harmonies is the flight of birds. The green woods Have closed about the stiller huts at evening...
  • Poem
    By Jos Charles
    its a secrete the grls speeching mye hole / inn 2 the lindens / wee go out & playe footballe / verie...
  • Poem
    By Adam O. Davis
    1. If a house is haunted like a radio is haunted If a body is a radio of blood If a body of ghosts hums...
  • Poem
    By S.J. Fowler & Rebecca Kamen
    SIR, the 28 spheres of Kamen’s harmony Susceptible, inferred, immense, actual - the electron microscopy...
    Rounded gray discs modeled after virus shapes arranged on a white gallery wall in a helix shape.
  • Poem
    By J. V. Cunningham
    I am no shepherd of a child’s surmises. I have seen fear where the coiled serpent rises, Thirst where...
  • Poem
    By Ahmad Almallah
    the wound is bleeding into white the wound is threading clouds across the eye, across its view and how...
  • Poem
    By Lyn Hejinian
    The spoons have clattered Aren’t children little pears and observant birds I note that the green blanket...
  • Poem
    By Marie Howe
    There’s always a chainsaw somewhere, the high whine of a drill, somebody building something or tearing...
  • Poem
    By T. S. Eliot
    Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. I was neither at the...
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