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 Toi DerricotteWhen relatives came from out of town,we would drive down to Blackbottom,drive slowly down the congested...
- By K. IverYou’ve never seen a lilac in Mississippi. Backstage you wear lotion laced with its chemical imitation...
- He was jailed for cruelty to insects, and his agent wasn’t answering the phone, so he stayed awake in...
- By John MurilloFor me, the movie starts with a black man Leaping into an orbit of badges, tiny moons Catching the sheen...
- By Georg TraklAt evening autumn forests drone With deadly weapons, the golden plains And the blue lakes, above which...
- By Georg TraklFull of harmonies is the flight of birds. The green woods Have closed about the stiller huts at evening...
- By Jos Charlesits a secrete the grls speeching mye hole / inn 2 the lindens / wee go out & playe footballe / verie...
- By Adam O. Davis1. If a house is haunted like a radio is haunted If a body is a radio of blood If a body of ghosts hums...
- By S.J. Fowler & Rebecca KamenSIR, the 28 spheres of Kamen’s harmony Susceptible, inferred, immense, actual - the electron microscopy...
- By J. V. CunninghamI am no shepherd of a child’s surmises. I have seen fear where the coiled serpent rises, Thirst where...
- By Ahmad Almallahthe wound is bleeding into white the wound is threading clouds across the eye, across its view and how...
- By Lyn HejinianThe spoons have clattered Aren’t children little pears and observant birds I note that the green blanket...
- By Marie HoweThere’s always a chainsaw somewhere, the high whine of a drill, somebody building something or tearing...
- By T. S. EliotHere I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. I was neither at the...
- By Patricia Smith"I seen it lots of times, I seen it, just from being on the street when something new was going down...
- By Patricia SmithWhen a bullet enters the brain, the head explodes. I can think of no softer warning for the mothers ...
- By Frank ChipasulaDarkness chained me to my tattered reed mat; The head of tyranny sprinkled The soot of ignorance in ...
- By Crystal Simone SmithI am waiting to be discovered (having· come to rest on the floor, head against the stove, upended chair...
