By Remica Bingham-Risher
a man is killed in Mobile, Alabama. It is 1981, nearest what some will call the last lynching in America...
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- By Thomas Henry SmithE Ihowā Atua,O ngā iwi mātou rā,Āta whakarangona;Me aroha noa.Kia hua ko te pai;Kia tau tō atawhai;Manaakitia...
- By Thomas BrackenGod of Nations at Thy feet,In the bonds of love we meet,Hear our voices, we entreat,God defend our free...
- By Sylvia ChanI want to begin this poem with two stories:1. In 1984, my mother was pulled over for speeding in a rural...
- By Letta Neelythis concrete here is where my brother’s last breath left his body began to circulate elsewhere; some...
- By Cheryl ClarkeMother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church Nine Senior pastor state senator Name meaning “merciful...
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the sign read
HARMACY after
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the P out - By Frank X. Walker...walk into a bar in America. Butterworth says, I’m being repackaged. Ben says, I’m being rebranded...
- By Cyrus ConsoleRotor wash, or the downward-flowing Air by which our helicopters formed Imprints in the jungle grass beneath ...
- By Ariana BrownI don’t know why most mexicans in my hood wore nike cortez’s– why the breakers in my crew polished ‘...
- By S.J. Fowler & Rebecca KamenSIR, the 28 spheres of Kamen’s harmony Susceptible, inferred, immense, actual - the electron microscopy...
- By Xi ChuanIf I could, I would put on a facemask and walk into the desert to meet with fairies and angels. I put...
- By James CagneyI come from the kidnapped, the assaulted— my country’tis of reparations as in-store credit backordered...
- By Layli Long SoldierHere, the sentence will be respected. I will compose each sentence with care, by minding what the rules...
- By Yuri AndrukhovychBut Ukraine is a country of the baroque. Traveling through it is a pleasure for the eye. And that’s why the temptation...
- By Yuri AndrukhovychУкраїна ж—це країна бароко. Мандрувати нею—для ока втіха. І тому западає спокуса в око: зруйнувати в...
- By Shanta LeeHunger like her mama Most strong in White gaze as in a Cowbird’s flirtation Sprouted in eyes to tongues to bellies...
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- By Ahmad Almallahthe world is not as bad as our neighbors made it to be that day— we’ve seen worse days— and how beautiful...
- By Rickey LaurentiisBecause I should’ve wrote this years ago, I’m crying. So what my slow failure pass the years Make me...
- By Federico García Lorca1. La cogida y la muerte A las cinco de la tarde. Eran las cinco en punto de la tarde. Un niño trajo...