That is why there always has to be a way back; he is “The Way Back” to reconciliation, to breaking trauma-filled bonds healing, both physical and mental wounds, and healing the past to have a healthy bright future.
The baseless dehumanization of one group of people dehumanizes everyone. On January 31, surveillance footage captured a hooded man violently shoving a 91-year-old Asian man to the ground in broad daylight in Oakland, California. The same day, the suspect is…
Collections that sing their way across the temporal as rhapsodic as they do the spiritual often invite the audience into the poet’s world, guided by vocabulary and images rooted in the poet’s own distinct patterns of speech. Each time I…
“Put a blindfold on me / tell me who you fear / and I will tell you / your skin” (94). This stanza from spoken-word poet and activist, Bao Phi, is included in his first collection of poetry entitled, Sông…
Yes, I’m a writer. Yes, I don’t write. This meme floated across my Twitter homepage sometime last year, and I never felt more validated. Though I was pursuing a BFA in Creative Writing, and it would presumably become my career,…
Disasters seem to be on our collective minds lately. We are surrounded, it feels, by endings, fractures, faults, and failures. As fires blaze, storms rage, and a pandemic sweeps the globe, it feels only appropriate to contemplate the nature of…
When opening Mike Jon’s portfolio, you are met with nearly one hundred faces looking back at you. These are Mike’s portraits, each of which, outside of being cast in black & white, captures the unedited truth of his subjects, whose…
Poetry can be a broad categorization but also an incredibly limiting one, and no one knows that better than April Hernandez. Genre-bending and experimental style challenges the conventions of the form, and that has become her specialty and her goal as a…
Aremu Adams Adebisi challenges his readers to reimagine grief, conflict, and hardship in his poem “Flintknapping”.
Quite often, western culture uses the moon as a symbol of love. Feelings associated with the moon include connectedness and stillness even if love is not reciprocated. 22 Lunes by Caleb Nichols is quite similar to the moon in that it…