Shade Literary Arts

especially this episode of food network’s chopped / obviously / I am rooting for the token / the black woman / the black dude from...

Xandria Phillips is a poet and visual artist from rural Ohio. Xandria has received fellowships from Oberlin College, Cave Canem,...

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...

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...

Adam Hamze is an Arab-American poet and journalist at the University of Texas at Austin. His poems have been published in Vinyl, The...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...