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It was on this spot of shoreline that Ben’s body had washed up, almost a month ago now.
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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“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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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Aremu Adams Adebisi challenges his readers to reimagine grief, conflict, and hardship in his poem “Flintknapping”.
