June Said by Mona Mehas
for June Jordan (1936-2002) June said, ‘Life is action.’ When I look up into the sky, I see the stars only because the sky is dark. I catch the scent of cedar in the air the smell of change, burning. June said, ‘Inaction is death.’ A storm bursts in the hearts of people across the […]
Still/Without You by Katie Hébert
*today’s Poem of the Day is in .jpg format to preserve formatting *this is the unformatted text of the poem After St. Vincent New York isn’t New York without you, love So far in a few blocks to be so low And if I call you from First Avenue I don’t know if you would […]
The Wisdom to Know the Difference by Pepper Cunningham
I wore plastic heart-shaped sunglasses from the dollar store paired with fault lines around my mouth. Amy Winehouse bluesed on the radio as I crawled through the cavernous hill country to find you. At your rehab, no, no, no, recovery center, you asked how’s school and I said good though I’d spent sophomore year bumming […]
Reconstruction of a Human Trafficking Survivor,2024 by Elizabeth Gade
Elizabeth Gade (b. 1987) Reconstruction Of A Human Trafficking Survivor, 2024 Mixed Media Visual Poem (magazine, paper, marker, foraged dried butterfly wings, duck feather) $100 5 x 7 inches Instagram: @ElizabethGadeThePoet @SurvivedToWrite ElizabethGadeThePoet@gmail.com – Elizabeth Gade is a rural Minnesota based poet, human trafficking survivor and advocate. Writing is her radical way to connect with […]
Caged Birds by Kris Kaila
when my mom chides me for laughing too much/ i wonder if it’s because she was never allowed to sing/ it is my Bibi/ her mother/ that sings or hums while washing dishes/ sewing on a button/ or when I lay my head on her lap/ and she knows to stroke my hair/ my mom […]
