zakia henderson-brown
We Make Ourselves Confetti
Background of blustered whinnies: The loveliest organ syncs strewn
The length of the house to seafoam; Twenty eyes attempting incense…
Profile Type: Emerging Poets Residency
Nicole Shanté
Meanwhile
dating while queer/ in bedroom and in classroom. dating while black/ in skin color and in soul/ in America and in rage/ in and out…
Noel Quiñones
Spit
White owned stoops will say my grandmother begged for saliva from a thousand pores, nurtured a transcontinental migration at 8 years old; they will call 134th…José Olivarez
(citizen) (illegal)
Mexican woman (illegal) and Mexican man (illegal) have a Mexican (illegal)-American (citizen). Is the baby more Mexican or American? Place the baby in the…
Cynthia Manick
When You Learn to Be a Lady
On summer mornings you crave— blackened foot heels and backyard lakes, water shrinking barrettes to an almost-paradise crown of…
Rico Frederick
stormy song, to drown the rattle
someone get the scotch tape / A boy is leaking / all over the floor / over the pavement /…
Chia-Lun Chang
The Milky Way
What should you be called?
why don’t you date americans. black doesn’t count. how much rent do you pay. do you…
Emily Brandt
Mind Map
To start this is to fail immediately and yet to persist. Steam from black tea rises as if no time has passed as if…