2023 Forthcoming Poetry Books by Queer People of Color
Full-length and chapbooks are included in this list. Last updated: 3/29/2023 Alice James Books Feast by Ina Cariño (March, $17.95). About...
An important update from us!
Over the last six years, Shade Literary Arts has had a small hand in supporting queer writers of color from across the world. Through 8...
Self-Portrait as Abraham's Ishmael by Sreshtha Sen
But who hasn’t killed a version of themselves to appease the one they worship. When I feel most beautiful, I wait for his flinch. We...
2021 Fall/Winter Issue - Editor's Note
I've been thinking a lot about the importance of silence and what silence offers and interrogates within a poem. I have to say, I haven't...
Two Poems by Banah al-Ghadbanah
ninkarrak My lover showed me the dawn. She showed me the sunrise & the shape of the moon. I lit the sky alive with morning praise. I...
Wounded by mx. jwcarroll
Perspective is everything, darling are you bleeding out or floating? each arrow a shivered life— the deal: we all die slow then faster,...
Fantasy of the Author as a Small Girl by Nora Hikari
In a small voice, she says: perhaps, if the things I want are small enough, and smooth enough, they will be forgotten and not taken from...
teachers of something by Tejaswini Sudhakar
my dear friend calls it serendipitous every time she runs into someone she knows on the street. i know we all live on this campus, she...
Narcissus by Nour Kamel
What did Echo do for you to hate her? The men who mimic him crawl on their bellies into your life woo and fawn and kiss your haired legs...
Two Poems by Fargo Tbakhi
PALESTINE IS A FUTURISM: EMPTINESS MY HEART WHEN IT IS SUFFUSED WITH ENVYPOISON LEGISLATURES THE SUN SHINING OUT OF OUR MOUTHS 401KS OF...