Jeremy Casabella
Last October half the wind grew refrigerate.
We left the door open and a fog
wandered its condensate on our walls. […]
August 2016
Nabila Lovelace
I want,
after waking to the news
that is always the news
& changing the Facebook
autoplay settings as to not
see the blood out
of where it is meant to be in
of the black / brown him / her / they, […]
Rickey Laurentiis receives 2016 Levis Reading Prize
Rickey Laurentiis is the winner of the 2016 Levis Reading Prize awarded by the Department of English and its MFA in Creative Writing program at Virginia Commonwealth University for his first poetry collection, “Boy with Thorn” (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015). […]
Yalie Kamara
I. If you see me praying in the living room, never sit in front of me. You are not God.
II. When we go to a restaurant and I don’t know any foods on the menu, never order me a meal that is spelled with silent letters. I came to eat, not to explore. […]
Kelle Groom
The first time I couldn’t save myself in that clamor seized by the hair
Even now the evening panic ensues
below my heart just there in the center of my body anthem of no […]
Lisa Hiton
There are no orchards. The air is water. Everywhere, curves.
I was meant to serve as a warrior, but here […]