Caylin Capra-Thomas
Fold I’m ill-equipped for my weather. A thin-skinned fruit. All bruise. Someone feeds me peels but I hoard them in the corner & make a nest. I take a pill smaller than a peppercorn so […]
2016
Erika L. Sanchez
Erika L. Sánchez is a poet, essayist, and fiction writer. She is the author of poetry collection Lessons on Expulsion (Graywolf 2017) and the young adult novel Brown Girl Problems (Knopf 2017). Her poetry has been published in Guernica, diode, Boston Review, POETRY Magazine. She has also […]
Richie Hofmann
They said there was a garden
filled with the remains of two thousand infants.
Unspeakable. […]
Anna Claire Hodge
My manicured nails shock pink
against the double clear of a tumbler
of vodka. Your canoe-carrying
hands, the bitten nubs, cradle swirled
blown glass. You suck at it like
a giving nipple, blow the sweet whorls
[…]
Terrell Jamal Terry
On figures almost faceless, light rips through light. Trees are trimmed to nearly unseen thinness with this increasing distance. […]
Tyler Gillespie
In this down south gay bar, leather jacket men stand w/ arms crossed. Trade, he walks by, walks by & holds glances. For a $5 cover charge, we all agree: push hand away if NO & hold gaze, jerk head if you’re down for whatever. & I do mean for whatever. […]
David Ishaya Osu
mum and dad
didn’t give
me a name […]
Alison C. Rollins
Venus Hottentot in a convex mirror
an interior coagulation of disembodiment.
They say that men are more visual & it
is true I can’t see myself from behind.
Can’t curate the archives of these cave walls
paintings drawn with moist fingers and firm hands. […]
Jamila Woods, Nikkita Oliver and Danez Smith on The Late Show
Singer Jamila Woods and poets Nikkita Oliver and Danez Smith join Macklemore & Ryan Lewis on their song “White Privilege II”.
Lauren Yates
He whistles the punchline through thorn-sharp teeth:
“Shadrach, Meshach, and a Bad Negro.” […]