Two Poems to #StandWithFerguson
CONVERGENCE Nancy Bevilaqua For Gaza, for Ferguson Back behind the barricades they’re saying what the looting means. Call it full-stop mercenary. Manholes steam. Fortune for the one... Read More
Introducing Nepantla
The Inaugural Issue of Nepantla: A Journal Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color launched this morning. Read the Issue here. And join Apogee Journal and Our Word in celebrating tonight... Read More
I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against A Sharp White Background: An Elegy
I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against A Sharp White Background: An Elegy Morgan Parker After Glenn Ligon after Zora Neale Hurston Or, I feel sharp White.... Read More
Notes On Loving A Black Man
Notes On Loving A Black Man Taylor Steele 1. When he leaves the house, know he may not come back. If he comes back, know he may not... Read More
The Vulture is a Patient Bird
By Fathima Cader One thousand hollow bones suspended from one small island’s underbelly, watery roots seeking anchorage, ours its submerged landscape of crags, broken into language and served with wooden... Read More