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By Mark Nowak They took me right down
the hill, and
pulled up in front

America, I Sing Back

By Allison Adelle Hedge Coke America, I sing back. Sing back what sung you in.
Sing back the moment you cherished breath.
Sing you home into yourself and back to reaso

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The Silver Screen Asks, “What’s Up Danger?” After We Enter

by: Steven Leyva

...what I see on my children’s faces / is not a season of phantasmal peace, but what’s left // when the world’s terrors retreat...

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the ghosts of the dead sea rewrite the history of drowning

by: George Abraham

sing [ the dead ] sing [ who walk ] sing sing [ in me ] sing [ & become ] sing [ history ]

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and maybe black girl magic…

by: Aniyah Smith

But didn’t nobody ever ask a black girl permission for her body anyways. / To society she be more product than person.

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saturday afternoon

by: Kenneth Carroll III

we all mean the world to somebody / and that is a blessing that is a comfort that is a long / hug before a bus ride to the station that is a lecture

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The night poetry danced with us

by: Amal Rana

as if we never existed
as if we were not sitting there
laughing and thriving
radiating life
insistent in our brown, black, mixed skinned existence

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