There’s a man in office. It's a word every Black man and woman fears. Another one who wants to claim their rights as typos. There’s a man in office.
Another one who wants to take out history and...
Un frisson dans la poitrine,
Un joyeux petit invité.
Joyeux, lumineux et léger,
Comme le soleil, pur et blanc.
Ou peut-être des larmes qui coulent,
Une ombre sur le mur.
Une...
They built the roads, the banks, the rails, the bones of this land,
Wrote brilliance into history with a manacled hand.
From working the cotton fields to being in classrooms, from the front line...
In all Galaxies
Out of all the things god made
Destiny brought us
--Sydney Chambers, '28
Riggs
i miss your big paws
the sweetest welcoming face
i used to see morn
--Samantha...
Rowan sat at the desk in the rented cabin, trying to coax a sentence out of the novel that refused to be written, when he noticed the lantern flame gutter as though something massive had moved outside....
WINNER: Aaliyah Allen, '29
Dead eyes–Is what I loved the most.
Dark and Stony!
Why do you say I’ve lost control of my mind and I have gone mad?
I can hear the demons that tell me things.
They...
“To A.G., The youngest African American inaugural poet, on seeing her black excellence strive.” By J.C., ‘26
How does this sound?
22 year old black African American poet
2020 was...
A kiss of blood, sweet and stinging,
Like swallowing forever before we even knew its cost.
But it wasn't just the kiss.
It was your smile, your hand finding mine like it has always known...
The Not-So-Smooth Criminal By Hayden Hayes 26”
A pane of glass shattered,
sharp but delicate.
a glimmering in the light
Pieces of it falling within the night
It scatters...
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