I am a womanI am strong and capable I hear you cannot achieve anything without a manI see a male dominated worldI want women’s rights and equalityI am a woman I pretend I am not fearful to walk alone at …
Stand Together by Kaley Corinaldi
Let us stand together Each man and woman forever We shall not stand for this hate We shall not contemplate The hate black people receive in this world Shall not be twirled Into the lives of so many young black …
a pleasant sort of haunting by elianna tenace
it nests inside my wretched house. mother swears i caught it on the trip, thinks i hurt something i shouldn’t. but ghosts don’t catch like colds. when i fall, wine-drunk and pleased soft hands pull my threads sighing from under …
Exquisite Corpse by …
… Kaleb Bjorkman, Carrie Cook, Ellie Tenace, Nathan Brock, Grace Williamson, Nahum Zewdie, Auston Mammenga, & Brook Bhagat Scavenging the star’s husk, eating the sea darkly, running the red rose, baking the blinding bee, drowning the black canvas, cleaning the …
ETS by Eric Stephenson
It took years to dislodge the hatesearing my brain and every limb,like a tree burning in a firestorm.I’m charred but still standing,waiting for the rains of spring. ☼☼☼
(M)ilitary (S)exual (T)rauma by Anonymous
Military Sexual Trauma they say, or simply “MST”An acronym for ease or one really just to hide the dis-ease? When it happened to me there were no acronymsand certainly not much awareness I went into the military in the era …
Down with Democracy! and Select Poems by Wortley Clutterbuck
Down with Democracy! Are not fools and stupid beings a majority in the world, and ought they not to have their representative? — Honoré de Balzac, Le Député d’Arcis. There’s been some muttering I’ve heard about a goverance preferred; it …
Fall is in the Air by Abigail Hansen
When night’s shadows no longer subside Autumn declares it has arrived The summer light now fades away Bringing with it shorter days Leaves of red soar to and fro As they clatter down the road Green fades to orange and …
Author Feature: Select Poems by Lache S.
Haikus of Finding Lostlost in a forestfor the last 5 hoursmeditations with treeswomen exhale smoke in Spainstep over glass on Irish streetsWhere do I fly next?reading Lorde alonein the black night silencelaundry spins in the machine188 days backpacking2 more remainlover …
Fear of the Blank by Suzanne Seyfi
If you don’t crack jokes on Twitter about Avoiding your writing by being on Twitter,Are you even a writer?What did people do before the internet?Jane Austen wrote letters instead of chapters,Took long walks past fields and seashores,Exchanged gossip with her neighbors.Lord …