Indictment for Sale
Written by Layla Maher. how many ways can you draw a woman / before she dulls / to linework and smudge / and the murky liquid / in the...
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- Oct 1
- 2 min
The Sickness
Written by Paula Pivko. Third Place Winner of the "Vultures & Doves: Social Issues of Our Time" Poetry Competition. I was up the first...
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- Oct 1
- 2 min
Korean Survivors of the Japanese “Comfort Women” System
Written by Melanie Hyo-In Han. Second Place Winner of the "Vultures & Doves: Social Issues of Our Time" Poetry Competition. "Korean...
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- Oct 1
- 2 min
No Hymn Flowering in the Morning
Written by Praise Osawaru. First Place Winner of the "Vultures & Doves: Social Issues of Our Time" Poetry Competition. for a while now,...
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- Sep 24
- 1 min
Moon in the Time of Coronavirus
Written by Michael Shen. moon veiled by tissue clouds glides through, flirtatious filly, back slapper, money man, and filters light...
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- Sep 11
- 9 min
To the Icons of the Hour - A poem to the heroes of September 11th, 2001
Written by L. R. Laverde-Hansen. I Some years have come and gone—perhaps these years It takes for root to take that this might live: A...
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- Aug 31
- 1 min
A Typical Saturday - In memory of the Odessa, Texas Mass Shooting (August 31, 2019)
Written by Chella Courington. In Memory of Edwin, Joseph, Kameron, Leilah, Mary, Raul, and Rodolfo. Sun scorches the West Texas desert....
Oyetayo Eniola
- Aug 6
- 1 min
Wonder
Written by Oyetayo Eniola. Running around sometime around midday Attending mother’s chores I remember her whom I never knew Her who is...
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- Jul 30
- 2 min
Of No Nation
Written by A'Ja Lyons. I’ll never know their names But I bear the signs of their pride The sacrifices The stains Which bore many gifts...
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- Jul 17
- 1 min
Good Trouble - A poem honoring John Lewis (February 21, 1940-July 17, 2020).
Written by Chella Courington. Good Trouble I was fifteen in a small Alabama town when I first heard your name John Lewis, then Edmund...
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- Jul 9
- 1 min
Facing Up
Written by Lynn White. You’re looking past her avoiding her eyes, the eyes of the woman in the front line of the protest the one who...
Oyetayo Eniola
- Jun 11
- 2 min
Frequency - A poem about Africa and her identity
Written by Oyetayo Eniola. What is this I feel? My frequency is one that picks a lot but is rarely picked by others Have I dived too deep...
John Grey
- Jun 4
- 1 min
Terror Tales
Written by John Grey. Terror can't come to the phone right now. A bomb ate its homework. It's sorry it missed you but it had a hard time...
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- May 23
- 1 min
Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzalez is Returned to Mother Earth
Written by Chella Courington. At the border, children cry in cages. Drenched in dark dreams, I wake. My mother reaches from the grave....
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- May 21
- 2 min
Seed Shells
Written by Lynn White. The first seeds were sown a long time ago. When these small seed shells burst open they were scattered locally....
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- May 14
- 1 min
Dark Figure IV
Written by Andrew Scott. Dark winds bring what is known as the nasty hands of twisted fate. These strings are pulled and pushed by a...
Milton P. Ehrlich
- May 7
- 1 min