“Dear Charleena…”
Category: Poetry
One howling syllable
From the author’s poetry collection ‘The Language of Grief’
six of honey
A poem and ritual by afrose fatima ahmed.
Deptford
“My mother left my father to become a real woman.”
The Inner Life of My Inner Self
“I tell people about the lookalike that lives in or behind me at all times who seems equal parts a wayward organ and a stranger waiting to be given directions home.”
father’s day
‘fathers day,’ a poem by J Mase III.
‘Spirits’ by Johnny Horton
“Look at the German shepherd / barking at his reflection, the robin that sees in your pane / a blue sky for flying free.”
No One Suspects the Days
A poem by Kary Wayson
Contortionist
A poem by Jamaica Baldwin
A Community Poetry Project Dedicated to Radical Self Love
Artists and public art administrators Elisheba Johnson and Kristen Ramirez turned Valentine’s Day on its ear.
Teeth ’n’ Love
A new poem by the former Seattle Youth Poet Laureate.
Bounding Sphere
“Better luck next year, we said…”