Poetry

Blood

Christine Chen

As she sticks the needle into me
Fiddles with it until the blood trickles
Into place in the ... [+]

Poetry
Poetry
Poetry

Streets

Shade Ayeni

I hear blood
families crying over a loved one’s
slain body in the street
The sirens are ... [+]

Poetry
Creative Nonfiction

All the News Is True

Via D'Agostino

There are—lions—roaming the streets, roars rattling frail windows and doors, eating the poor. Menacing, golden-maned monster—stay inside or see your own insides spilled out on the ... [+]

Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry

Ode to Death

John

Yo, I see you down there walking my way
Like a bill collector coming for his pay
But I ... [+]

Poetry
Creative Nonfiction

Why Slavery in America?

Mountain Nose

To some degree, American slavery was due to the glaciers of the last Ice Age that ended nearly twelve thousand years ago. As the ice, covering five million square miles and as thick as 10,000 feet ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

America, My Home

Deb

Proudly, my grandfather stood on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in the year 1920 reading the inscription, “Give me your tired; your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.  Send ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

Juneteenth

Terraine Smith

While I am embarrassed to not know of my Black history Juneteenth, I am also angry, that my school system failed me when I was coming up in my time of the 40ties, and 50ties with that ... [+]

Creative Nonfiction

My Coloring of America

Erin Campagna

Red.
An open wound, a gunshot, a hand leaving a loud, angry mark on a pale face. Red, the color of states that people look dismissively down upon, while the constituents trapped inside scream ... [+]