ACTUALLY, YES, EVERYTHING IS ABOUT RACE by mace dent johnson
especially this episode of food network’s chopped / obviously / I am rooting for the token / the black woman / the black dude from...
MICHELLE OBAMA AND I SELF-MEDICATE by Xandria Phillips
Xandria Phillips is a poet and visual artist from rural Ohio. Xandria has received fellowships from Oberlin College, Cave Canem,...
GOOGLE TRANSLATE 'HOW TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET': A PARTIAL CHINESE-ENGLIS DICTIONARY by Nan
my grandfather was the one who told me that women loving women is la la la la for lily. la la for pull. la la for the print on my...
MOORING AT THE MOUTH by Sarah Maria Medina
i am afraid to send my daughter/ into the howl of it/ afraid of lynching/ that they will see her brown skin & mistake her perfect/ hand...
MY MOTHER CANNOT LOOK AT ME WITHOUT WANTING TO CRY by Adam Hamze
Adam Hamze is an Arab-American poet and journalist at the University of Texas at Austin. His poems have been published in Vinyl, The...
THE SPACE BETWEEN SKIN IS CALLED A WOUND by Julian Randall
So I guess that’s my name now I am progress in the way a scab is progress and this is what it is to be biracial conceived as a thin...
TWO POEMS by Jonathan Jacob Moore
micro aggression violence is not the answer unless you ask: I. how did you make find out of flesh? II. how do you dispose of evidence...
ESSAY ON WHAT IS & ISN'T by Cameron Awkward-Rich
to c.e. When a man says knife is no form of seduction he means he’s never been split. But doesn’t everyone have a seam? Unravel to dark...
FIELD STUDY #1 by Aricka Foreman
I take my father’s nose and shove it in a box. My mother’s mouth lays claim to the vowels Of my making. I learned to tend and till and...
PORTRAITS OF MAMA MBOGA NEXT-DOOR JUST PAST HER LATEST TEEN by Redscar McOdindo K'Oyuga
she is ruined without ether or violet smoke, covers her skin in jewels. she is the taj mahal, she’s what happens to little toys in the...