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…
Listen to episode 2 of The LJ Pod. Little Jefferson's Reeham Ahmed captivates us with her imagination and early career goals.
Ailun Shi joins us as Guest Editor for our ninth issue 'Gibberish'. Read her words of wisdom and learn more about this issue.
Listen to episode 1 of The LJ Pod. Fareh Malik has erupted forth into the field of written poetry like fresh-water does an estuary.
A Review of Christiana Castillo’s Crushed Marigold.
“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…
Ailun Shi joins us as Guest Editor for our ninth issue 'Gibberish'. Read her words of wisdom and learn more about this issue.
Lucky Jefferson announces its 2021 Pushcart Prize nominees.