Poems don’t look at; they look into. Contemplating the body in which he lives every minute of his days, James Crews imagines what’s happening inside, then feels the metaphor of a glittering city arise ...
Poet Safia Elhillo never used to write about her body. She felt safer writing poems that pointed the reader's gaze away from herself. "Up until this point, I only knew how to write a neat, tidy and ...
May 13—There's still time to enter the Live Out Proud Poetry Contest hosted by Rainbow Alliance & NEPA Pride Project. In its 2024 edition, Jolene Maleski of Wilkes-Barre was the first-place winner ...
MY BODY IS A POEM/THE WORLD MAKES WITH ME is a personal documentary about belonging, familial love and Canadian colonial histories by director and poet Brandon Wint. At the intersection of Blackness ...
The sick poet peels fruit, watching the city wake from the hotel glass. Street signs say ONLY ONLY STOP—the tree buds don’t, the garbage bags don’t. The taxi driver mentions Kerouac to soothe your ...
In her latest poetry collection Girls That Never Die, Safia Elhillo writes about the shame and violence that often comes with being a woman. Safia Elhillo takes a leap in new poems, writes about shame ...
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