Lisa Ampleman
A selection of sonnets in the voice of Courtney Love by Lisa Ampleman and a conversation between Lisa and Phillip B. Williams. […]
January 2016
Essence London
Like every other black woman, I sleep naked with a box fan in the open window. / When it rains and after my kid has sung into the dust-white, / spinning blades (laughing with distortion), after he is sleeping in his own dark room, […]
The Adroit Journal, Issue 14
The new issue of The Adroit Journal is up and amazing! It includes work by so many folks we love including Keith Leonard, Ruth Awad, William Brewer, Diana Khoi Nguyen, Fatimah Asghar and more plus […]
AM Ringwalt
the throat: full of wildflowers
the eyes: surrounded by deep pink flesh
can i swallow what i’m made of
(those i want to save but can’t) […]
The Spectacle of Black Death: Remembering Our Killed or Rekindling Their Murders? Part 2
by Phillip B. Williams
In her book The Art of Cruelty, Maggie Nelson writes, referring to President Obama’s administration deciding on May 2009 not to release photos depicting the torture (among other things) of Afghan and Iraqi prisoners in American custody, “If you don’t want to inflame via images of the behavior, then you have to stop the behavior.” […]
Laura Green
There’s a poster of Wonder Woman on the wall beside my bed. She’s standing with her feet apart, her hands in fists on her smooth, round hips. I know she’s a superhero, but I don’t know what a superhero is. […]
Anders Carlson-Wee
Leftover Crowning Glorys.
Leftover Ladyfingers,
Bottle Rockets, Triple Missiles,
Dancing with Ghosts. […]
Justin Phillip Reed
under a weight of slush-cold bodies
rutting, i drew breath: rancor.
the clamor of their anchors dragging […]
Jess X Chen
JESS X CHEN is a film director, artist, and nationally touring poet. After the Cultural Revolution, her parents immigrated from Nanchang, China to Canada in the late 1980s. Her work exposes narratives of colonial trauma, diaspora, and collective protest by connecting the violences between the queer and colored body and the body of the Earth. […]