I can smell the war coming by Rhea Melina
It’s too many days uninterrupted with rubber burning in my nostrils and exhaust fuming on my cheeks, I try to brush it off, it doesn’t go away I cough, it tastes like plastic, no matter what I do or say I fear I’m fake and floating, not like an angel or a fairy flying in […]
Grants Pass v Johnson by Nathan Tompkins
Fuck you, Grants Pass. When I was ten, my family lived in a school bus with no heat— converted into a motorhome, parked on the side of the road. Fuck you, Roberts. We were houseless. Dad worked. We were houseless. I went to school. We were houseless. Fuck you, Alito. We spent Christmas. My brother […]
500-word DEI Statement by Dario Cvencek
the root of the English word SLAVE comes from the eastern European ethnic group SLAVS who were enslaved in such large numbers during the Middle Ages that their name became synonymous with servitude throughout Western languages words are stuff of murder I was born into one of the South Slavic tribes the history of my […]
Djembe by Regine Jackson
When your spunk has grown like wild sassafras, That’s when you know you’ve made it When your words drip from your lips like honey, But bite like a carolina reaper That’s when you know you’ve found your voice Dancing to your own drum is a learned practice, and I pray that one day You have […]
I pledge no allegiance by Linda M. Crate
i am screaming, but i fear no one can hear me; they keep stripping rights away like they are playing a game of dominos trying to strike away every last one— they’re trying to make presidents into kings, when even the founding fathers as flawed and imperfect as they were fought to escape a monarchy; […]
