Said the Devil to Lil Nas X Shoe Burners by Robert Lashley
“Who would believe that you loved me? / Who would believe that you kept my name? ”
The Poetry Closet: Robert Lashley
I don’t want the Nobel prize.
I want to be like my Uncle Moe.
The Poetry Closet: Johnny No Bueno
the statute of limitations is up on all of my crimes...I hope
The Revolution Will Not Be Cat Called, a poem by Robert Lashley
“If the Black world is lost, if our love world ain’t love,
if the unheard, unshaken Black word is freedom,
where is the world you knead off our skulls?”
Interview: Poet Igor Brezhnev
“Engage in mutual aid. Educate each other. Challenge the greedy.”
Poetry Suite by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan
“my younger brother gets hold of a gun for the first time / he begins to wish for a duel with a seven-eyed ghost”
Poeming beyond Trauma by Darla Himeles
“the legacy of trauma can be something other than shatter or silence”
Poetry Suite by Darla Himeles
“alive & determined to live, all the way to the unfathomable depths”
Poetry Suite from ‘Mathematics for Ladies’ by Jessy Randall
“Men got the credit, but I continue to spin.”
Poetry Suite by Amber Flame
“o, my silent complicity,
o, your silent complicity.
o, our villainy in loving
what chooses to do ill”
Poetry Suite by Angel Kofsky
“I know when I say I’m nonbinary
the first thing people do
is look at my beard”
Poetry Suite by Caroline Earleywine
“Tis the season to be
proud, to trade our silent nights
for this holy loud.”
